Excerpt from Open Access News
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2004_02_08_fosblogarchive.html#a107633590270731370
"Barbara Quint, OECD Ministers Support Open Access for Publicly
Funded Research Data, Information Today, February 9, 2004. Good
overview of the Declaration on Access to Research Data From Public
Funding with some clarification not yet published elsewhere. Excerpt:
"Some confusion arose as to whether the 'open access' advocated by
the OECD signatories included the research results usually published
in journals or was restricted to the large digital data sets of
raw research material used by multiple researchers, e.g., the Human
Genome project. Daniel Malkin, head of the OECD Science and Technology
Policy Division of the OECD Directorate for Science and Technology in
Industry, when asked for clarification, indicated that the focus was
on data sets. However, when asked if the Declaration specifically
excluded finished research products, as in published material, he
earnestly pointed out that there is no such thing as a 'finished'
research product. He quoted Professor Ryoji Noyori, president of
RIKEN and Nobel Laureate in Chemistry, who attended the conference
and stated, 'Science is a never-ending journey.' Daniel [actually
"David" --PS] Prosser, director of SPARC Europe, an alliance of
European research libraries, library organizations, and research
institutions, and an advocate for open access, commented that 'the
language and the logic would seem to apply to both data and its
interpretation in research results.'"
Posted by Peter Suber at 9:11 AM.
Received on Mon Feb 09 2004 - 16:38:07 GMT