Molly Kleinman

I was disappointed to learn yesterday that Congressman John Conyers (D-MI) reintroduced the “Fair Copyright in Research Works” Act despite the fact that it is neither fair nor supportive of research. As Paul Courant put it in his blog post about it the first time around, “the Fair Copyright in Research Works Act is a [...]

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One of the big questions that kept coming up about the NIH Public Access Policy was, “But how will they enforce it?”
The answer appears to be, “With gentle email reminders.”
A faculty member at the University of Michigan recently received this message (name and article titles removed to protect the grantee’s privacy):
Subject: Public Access Compliance
Dear Principal [...]

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