This report begins with an inventory of basic information: definitions and guides to histories of the growth of open access publishing and citation archives and descriptions of selected major open access activities. It moves on to summarize major points of difference between proponents and opponents of nongovernmental open access publishing and databases, and then highlights federal, including National Institutes of Health (NIH), open access activities and contentious issues surrounding these developments. The report also briefly describes open access developments in the United Kingdom (where a number of governmental and nongovernmental initiatives have occurred) and in the international arena. Finally, controversial issues which could receive attention in the 109th Congress are summarized.

A man is seated in front of screen that shows an image of a woman.

Salvador Espino holds aloft a document in his right hand.

A photograph of Robert Rivera speaking while being filmed for an interview. He wears a suit with a blue and white striped shirt and a blue patterned tie.

A student and an instructor at work in a vocational education class in Diamond Hill-Jarvis High School in Fort Worth, Texas.

Laura Miller served as mayor of Dallas, Texas from 2002-2007.

Laura Miller served as mayor of Dallas, Texas from 2002-2007.

A student learns how to lay bricks at Diamond Hill-Jarvis High School in Fort Worth, Texas.

Three students work on the roof of a structure that they and their classmates are building at Diamond Hill-Jarvis High School in Fort Worth, Texas.

Since 1905, Albert Einstein's ''miraculous year'', modern physics has advanced explosively. In 2005, the World Year of Physics, a session at the SAA Annual meeting discusses three institutional initiatives--Einstein's collected papers, an international geophysical program, and a research laboratory--to examine how physics and physicists are documented and how that documentation is being collected, preserved, and used. This paper provides a brief introduction to the research laboratory (SLAC), discusses the origins of the SLAC Archives and History Office, its present-day operations, and the present and future challenges it faces in attempting to preserve an accurate historical record of SLAC's activities.

A student works on a welding project at Diamond Hill-Jarvis High School, located in northern Fort Worth. She and twenty-four of here classmates will participate in a competition to take place in Waco, Texas that will measure their abilities against the best students in the United States.

This report is part of the Web-at-Risk project. This report summarizes the results of the interviews with content providers. Section 2 identifies the interview methodology. Section 3 describes the results and Section 4 discusses the major findings.

A weekly publication, the Texas Register serves as the journal of state agency rulemaking for Texas. Information published in the Texas Register includes proposed, adopted, withdrawn and emergency rule actions, notices of state agency review of agency rules, governor's appointments, attorney general opinions, and miscellaneous documents such as requests for proposals. After adoption, these rulemaking actions are codified into the Texas Administrative Code.

Student newspaper from St. Edward's University in Austin, Texas that includes news and information of interest to the college community along with advertising.

Video recording from The Black Academy of Arts and Letters recorded during their Christmas and Kwanzaa Volunteer Soiree event in 2006. This video features a celebration to shows appreciation to TBAAL volunteer, members, and sponsors in friendship and entertainment in the spirit of Christmas and Kwanzaa.

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Weekly Czech and English language newspaper from Temple, Texas published as the official organ of the Slavonic Benevolent Order of the State of Texas that includes news of interest to members along with advertising.

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This report discusses government efforts to increase efficiency. One approach being implemented to reduce duplicative spending and improve cross-agency collaboration is the use of enterprise architecture (EA) planning across the federal government. An EA serves as a blueprint of the business operations of an organization, and the information and technology needed to carry out these functions.

Application materials submitted to the Texas Historical Commission requesting a historic marker for the Lyons Lodge No. 195, A.F. & A.M., in Schulenburg, Texas. The materials include the inscription text of the marker, original application, narrative, and photographs.

Newspaper from Rose State College in Midwest City, Oklahoma that includes national, local, and campus news along with advertising.

This report the National Emergencies Act (50 U.S.C. 1601-1651) that eliminated or modified some statutory grants of emergency authority, required the President to declare formally the existence of a national emergency and to specify what statutory authority, activated by the declaration, would be used, and provided Congress a means to countermand the President's declaration and the activated authority being sought.

Weekly newspaper from Yoakum, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.