Academic Council of the University of California System urges the university to supports FRPAA

From the August 5 letter by Mary Croughan, Chair of the Academic Council, to Mark Yudof, President of the University: "At its meeting on July 29, 2009, the Academic Council voted to urge the University to endorse Senate Bill 1373 [Federal Research Public Access Act, or FRPAA], which would require specified federal funding agencies to mandate open access to journal articles resulting from their grants after an embargo period of six months. This federal legislation are well-aligned with the proposed principles of open access from the University Committee on Library and Scholarly Communication (UCOLASC), which were included in my June 16, 2009 letter to you, ‘Promoting Open Access Policies’...."