Timeline 2009
From OAD
- This is a section within the larger Timeline of the open access movement.
- January 26, 2009. The UK Engineering & Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) revealed that it had adopted an OA mandate, making it the seventh out of the seven Research Councils UK to do so.
- April 16, 2009. Peter Suber launched the OA tracking project (beta).
- June 15, 2009. Senators John Cornyn and Joe Lieberman re-introduced the Federal Research Public Access Act (FRPAA) in the US Senate. FRPAA would mandate OA at a wide range of US federal agencies. Cornyn and Lieberman originally introduced FRPAA in 2006, when I didn't come up for a vote. (Details on the reintroduction.)
