In a carefully worded statement released Monday, Elsevier withdrew support for HR3699, also known as the Research Works Act. Later that same day representatives sponsoring the bill in the House announced they were dropping it too, and open access advocates cheered across the social media universe! Michael Eisen congratulated everyone and reminded readers that there are more battles for open access to come. Here is the NY Times’ take on the issue of access to publicly funded research, and Jen Howard of the Chronicle for Higher Education on the end of the RWA.

Michelle Kraft posted a nice rundown of which social media sites own your content and how in The Devil is in the Details: Social Media’s Right to Your Content.

A Washington Post piece called The world’s most boring journal–and why it’s good for Science has been making a splash on Twitter.

The FDA has added new warnings to statins and may fine Merck for failure to conduct postmarketing tests of two diabetes drugs.

And, last but not least, the NY Times on the unveiling of Microsoft’s Windows 8.

Some items of interest from the net this week:

Ten library, publishing, and advocacy organizations issued this letter of support for the Senate version of the Federal Research Public Access Act (S. 2096).  See more on the Senate and House bills and how you can support FRPAA here.

PubMed now supports versioned citations! For more on how revisions and updates will appear on PubMed and how to search for all versions of an article, see this post from the NLM Tech Bulletin. There is likely more to come about this…

A helpful summary of the American Journal of Bioethics /Stem Cell / Texas scandal (via @tbtam)

The Chronicle of Higher Education reports on changes to the Medical College Admissions Test

Causing some buzz this week;

New guidelines from ASCO suggest palliative care be combined with oncology practice earlier on in metastatic disease

This piece in LibraryJournal thanks the AAP and the Research Works Act for getting scholars energized about open access. Meanwhile, a new congressional bill called the Federal Research Public Access Act (or FRPAA) would expand current open access policies. Evolutionary biologist and open access advocate Michael Eisen weighs in.

Tech Review reports that Europeans Protest ACTA

Lots of bloggers are reflecting on the Komen/Planned Parenthood rift. Matthew Herper of Forbes says to restore their reputation, Komen should research new drugs, and you can read former Komen SVP Karen Handel’s resignation letter here.

In social media news: Path, Pinterest and some big mistakes!