After
regaining access to the mine in late March, laboratory staff members have now inspected the experiments and believe lasting damage
to them is unlikely, says the lab's director, Marvin Marshak of the
University of Minnesota in Minneapolis.
When Pannekoek
regained the floor, he noted some of the very interesting thing that Athabaska
University is doing in terms of OA: they have established canada's first Open
Access University Press, the have committed 1 % of their total budget
to OA initiatives, are dedicated
to open source software, and are a leader in the open courseware movement.