OA Roundup: FASTR Moves Forward; New Controlled Vocabulary Supports Repositories

" ... On July 29, the Fair Access to Science and Technology Research (FASTR) Act (S. 779 and H.R. 1477) was approved by voice vote by the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. The proposed legislation would require federal departments and agencies with research expenditures of $100 million or more to make the peer-reviewed versions of research they fund—or research their employees conduct—publicly available via open repositories within 12 months of publication ... On the opposite end of the implementation spectrum is the release of a new controlled vocabulary for resource types. The Confederation of Open Access Repositories’ (COAR) Controlled Vocabularies for Repository Assets Interest Grouppublished a first draft for public review of a vocabulary that 'defines concepts to identify the genre of a resource,' which can be used across repositories. Resource genres include categories such as text, images, and software, all of which are then broken out into further subcategories ..."