In the Guardian report today, headed 'MPs back free access to research
results', it says 'The results of publicly funded scientific research
carried out in Britain should be made freely available to all and the
government should help universities fund digital archives of their
academic work ..'. Additionally it says 'the jury is still out' on the
author pays model, and says Elsevier now allows authors to archive their
published work. There is a recommendation that funders of research
'mandate their funded researchers to deposit a copy of all their
articles in their institutions's repository within one month of
publication or a reasonable period'.
Barbara Kirsop
Stevan Harnad wrote:
> [I have now seen the report, and the positive rumour indeed proved correct!]
>
> **Written July 19, posted July 20 2004**
>
> I am at the Barcelona 2004 Forum on the biology of conflict and cooperation
> http://www.barcelona2004.org/eng/eventos/dialogos/ficha.cfm?IdEvento=164
> so I have not seen the UK Select Committee Report (embargoed till
> tomorrow, July 20, four hours from now).
>
> But if the rumour is false that it will only recommend support for OA
> publishing,
>
> "Re: UK Select Committee Inquiry into Scientific Publication"
> http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/3836.html
>
> and the rumour is true that it will also recommend mandating
> the self-archiving of all UK-funded research, then the outcome could
> not have been better -- though it could have come 10 years earlier!
>
> "June 27 2004: The 1994 "Subversive Proposal" at 10"
> http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/3809.html
> http://www.arl.org/sc/subversive/
>
> Mandated self-archiving for UK-funded research output had
> been precisely what our own written testimony (with Tony Hey,
> Charles Oppenheim, and numerous other co-signatories) had
> recommended:
>
> http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Temp/ukparl.html
> http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Temp/ukparl.doc
>
> And this UK recommendation would perfectly complement the steps NIH is
> beginning to take in the same direction in the US:
>
> "Re: Mandating OA around the corner?"
> http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/3851.html
> http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/3854.html
>
> Now the recommendation needs only implementation:
>
> http://www.eprints.org/signup/sign.php
>
> and then I *guarantee* that all the rest of the OA dominoes
> will rapidly fall, worldwide.
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Stevan Harnad
>
> UNIVERSITIES:
> If you have adopted or plan to adopt an institutional policy of providing
> Open Access to your own research article output, please describe your
> policy at:
> http://www.eprints.org/signup/sign.php
>
> UNIFIED DUAL OPEN-ACCESS-PROVISION POLICY:
> BOAI-2 ("gold"): Publish your article in a suitable open-access
> journal whenever one exists.
> http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/boaifaq.htm#journals
> BOAI-1 ("green"): Otherwise, publish your article in a suitable
> toll-access journal and also self-archive it.
> http://www.eprints.org/self-faq/
> http://www.soros.org/openaccess/read.shtml
>
> AMERICAN SCIENTIST OPEN ACCESSS FORUM:
> A complete Hypermail archive of the ongoing discussion of providing
> open access to the peer-reviewed research literature online (1998-2004)
> is available at:
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> To join the Forum:
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>
>
Received on Tue Jul 20 2004 - 16:07:31 BST