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