Hello,
I am in the process of lobbying my academic institution to provide and
support an Eprints server and associated infrastructure. So far progress has
mainly consisted of a meeting with our library director and a few of his
staff. We are setting up a meeting with the Subcommittee on Information
Technology and Library here in a week or so also. One of the questions the
library director asked was: how many journals currently have copyrights that
allow self-archiving? Is anyone collecting such a list?
Thanks,
Chris.
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Christopher G. Prince, Ph.D.
University of Minnesota Duluth
Department of Computer Science
320 Heller Hall, 10 University Drive
Duluth, MN 55812 USA (218) 726-6514
chris_at_cprince.com
http://www.cprince.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Till" <till_at_UHNRES.UTORONTO.CA>
To: <AMERICAN-SCIENTIST-OPEN-ACCESS-FORUM_at_LISTSERVER.SIGMAXI.ORG>
Sent: Friday, January 19, 2001 12:01 AM
Subject: PubMed Central
> A recent advocacy effort about PubMed Central (found via:
> http://www.publiclibraryofscience.org/index.shtml):
>
> "publiclibraryofscience.org was established to organize support
> within the scientific community for online public libraries of
> science, providing unrestricted free access to the archival record of
> scientific research."
>
> "Scientists can express their support for this effort by signing an
> open letter. 1507 scientists from 52 countries have already signed.
> Your support will help us to persuade the publishers of scientific
> journals to commit to giving their archival material to the public
> domain for distribution through online public libraries."
>
> "More information about this effort, the current editorial policies of
> journals, and related issues is available in our FAQ. We also
> encourage you to read an editorial written by Richard Roberts and
> published in PNAS describing why he thinks scientists should support
> this effort."
>
> URLs for:
>
> Open letter: http://www.publiclibraryofscience.org/plosLetter.htm
>
> FAQ: http://www.publiclibraryofscience.org/plosFAQ.htm
>
> Editorial: http://www.publiclibraryofscience.org/plosRoberts.htm
>
> The editorial is also available via the Jan. 16 issue of PNAS:
>
> Richard J. Roberts
> "PubMed Central: The GenBank of the published literature"
> PNAS 2001 98: 381-382.
>
> Jim Till
> University of Toronto
>
Received on Wed Jan 03 2001 - 19:17:43 GMT