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[News] The Law Set Free With Openness in the Open Access Sense, Australia's Conroy Subverts Democracy

  • Subject: [News] The Law Set Free With Openness in the Open Access Sense, Australia's Conroy Subverts Democracy
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 02 Apr 2010 08:43:09 +0100
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Law.Gov -- opening up primary legal materials 

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| The primary legal materials of the United 
| States -- laws, hearings, opinions, 
| dockets, regulations, and other writings 
| issued by the government that govern our 
| daily lives -- are not readily available. A 
| national conversation is taking place in 
| 2010 at many of the top law schools in the 
| country to help define what it would take 
| for our government to embrace the ideas 
| behind Law.Gov that all primary legal 
| materials should be readily available in 
| authenticated registries and repositories. 
| These workshops have strong participation 
| from the legal academy, including law 
| librarians, professors, and deans. But, 
| they also involve senior officials from the 
| federal and state government as well as a 
| strong representation from non-profits and 
| for-profits involved in presenting legal 
| information to the public and to the legal 
| profession.
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http://opensource.com/law/10/3/lawgov-opening-primary-legal-materials

Google and Yahoo criticise Australia's 'heavy-handed' internet filter plans

,----[ Quote ]
| Australia came under fire today from the 
| United States for its proposed internet 
| filtering system, which, if implemented, 
| would be the strictest of any democracy.
| 
| A US state department official said that it 
| had raised concerns with Australia over the 
| plans, which are to be voted on by its 
| parliament.
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/mar/29/google-yahoo-australia-internet-filter


Recent:

U.S. systemic savings from a full shift to OA: $3.4 billion

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| King argues for an open access system via article processing fees,
| fully paid by the federal government. It is noteworthy that King's
| estimate is that this would cost, in a worst-case scenario, an
| increase of less than 1% of what the U.S. federal government
| spends on research grants right now. King acknowledges the
| unlikelihood of this scenario. Average cost-per-article of
| $1,500 and $2,500 U.S. scenarios are employed; the additional
| cost for 100% funding of articles would be $427 million (at
| $1,500 per article) or $712 million (at $2,500 per article).
| King estimates that academic and special libraries could,
| together, save an estimate $4.1 billion per year.
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http://poeticeconomics.blogspot.com/2010/03/us-systemic-savings-from-full-shift-to.html
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