From: Richard Poynder <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2012 21:01:37 +0000

Last month Elsevier withdrew its support for the controversial
Research Works Act. Had it become law, the RWA would have rolled back
the NIH Public Access Policy requiring that funded researchers make
their papers freely available on the Web within 12 months of
publication. It would also have outlawed other US federal agencies
from introducing similar policies. As such, the bill was a direct
assault on Green Open Access. But while Elsevier’s retreat was a big
win for supporters of Open Access, OA will continue to be a
brick-by-brick process — as evidenced by recent events in Australia.

More here: http://poynder.blogspot.com/2012/03/open-access-brick-by-brick.html

Richard Poynder