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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
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| 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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