open government

by Melanie T. Kowalski, Library Research Fellow, The Intellectual Property Rights Office

UPDATE: Since the original drafting of this post, several organizations and publishers have released statements against the Research Works Act (H.R. 3699):

The United States has taken step forward in the Open Access Movement. On October 5^th, 2011, the National Technical Information Service (NTIS) announced its partnership with Information International Associates, Inc. (IIa) in developing an Institutional Repository Service for federal agencies.