I have yesterday forwarded a submission to the Australian Research
Council (one of Australia’s two public research funding councils,
covering all but biomedical research) regarding requiring grantees to
deposit their published articles arising from the grant in an OAI-PMH
repository. The ARC asked for submissions on its Funding Rules and
Funding Agreements. I have extracted below the Executive Summary and the
signatories. My personal thanks to all those who provided comment or
agreed to support the submission. I hope for a good outcome.
If you are interested in reading the full submission, please see
http://eprints.utas.edu.au/277/.
Executive Summary
The submission is addressed to making a change in the reporting
requirements for all funded schemes, which will make it a requirement of
receiving the grant to deposit an electronic copy of any refereed
research journal or conference articles deriving from the grant with the
institution administering the grant. Minor changes are needed in the
Funding Rules and the Funding Agreements. Precise wording is supplied to
eliminate any concerns by publishers and to make the implementation easy.
The benefits to Australia are that Australia’s ARC publicly funded
research is made visible to all through the Internet, and in the majority
of cases publicly accessible. This will raise Australia’s research
impact and is consistent with Australia’s espousal of a level
playing field in the dissemination of research, and with activities
currently underway or implemented in the USA, Canada, the United Kingdom,
and the European Union.
5 Signatories
Submission prepared by
Arthur Sale
Professor of Computing (Research), University of Tasmania. Previously
Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Information Services), University of Tasmania, and
National Vice-President of the Australian Computer Society Inc. Recipient
of the 2004 Individual Achievement Award from the ICT Industry, and
recipient of the 2001 ANCCAC Award for best Australian paper in ICT. See
also
http://www.comp.utas.edu.au/app/staff_profile.jsp?user=ahjs.
Stevan Harnad
Canada Research Chair in Cognitive Science at Université du Québec à
Montréal, Canada, and Professor of Cognitive Science at the University of
Southampton, UK. He is an External Member of the Hungarian Academy of
Sciences. Founder and editor of Behavioral and Brain Sciences (a paper
journal published by Cambridge University Press), Psycoloquy (an
electronic journal sponsored by the American Psychological Association)
and the CogPrints Electronic Preprint Archive in the Cognitive Sciences.
He is also moderator of the American Scientist Open Access Forum. See
also
http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/vita.html.
Alma Swan
Director, Key Perspectives Ltd. Alma held a faculty position at the
University of Leicester until 1985, when she moved into science
publishing. In 1996, she jointly founded Key Perspectives, a consultancy
serving the scholarly publishing industry. Since 1991 she has been tutor
for two business strategy courses on Warwick Business School’s MBA
programme and holds honorary roles as business mentor and teacher for the
Institute for Entrepreneurship (part of the School of Management) at
Southampton University.
Peter Suber
Research Professor of Philosophy at Earlham College, Open Access Project
Director at Public Knowledge, and Senior Researcher at the Scholarly
Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC). Author of the SPARC
Open Access Newsletter, the Open Access News weblog, and principal
drafter of the Budapest Open Access Initiative.
Other support
Many other members of the Open Access community have expressed their
personal support for the recommendations in Section 3. Their names are
listed below.
International
Keith G Jeffery
Professor, Director IT and International Strategy, Council for the
Central Laboratory of the Research Councils, UK
Subbiah Arunachalam
Distinguished Fellow, M S Swaminathan Research Foundation, Chennai, India
Member, ExComm, GKP, Kuala Lumpur. Member, International Advisory Board,
IICD, The Hague. Trustee, Electronic Publishing Trust, UK.
Eric F. Van de Velde
Director of Library Information Technology, California Institute of
Technology, USA
Board of Directors of the Networked Digital Library of Theses and
Dissertations, CrossRef Library Advisory Board, and Chair NISO Committee
AX on OpenURL standardization
Peter Schirmbacher
Professor for Information Management at the Dept of Library and
Information Science, Humboldt-University Berlin, Germany
Speaker of the German Initiative of Networked Information
Michael J. Kurtz
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, MA USA
Andrew Odlyzko
Director, Digital Technology Center, University of Minnesota
ADC Professor; Assistant Vice President for Research; Professor of
Mathematics
Graham McGregor
Research Development Coordinator, School of Business, University of
Otago, New Zealand
Nigel Stanger
Lecturer and Project Lead for the Otago EPrints Repository, University of
Otago, New Zealand
Joanne Yeomans
Scientific Information Officer, CERN - European Organization for Nuclear
Research
Stefan Gradmann
Deputy Director Computing Services, Hamburg University, Germany
Leo Waaijers
Programme manager DARE, SURF Foundation, The Netherlands
Eloy Rodrigues
Documentation Services Director, Universidade do Minho, Portugal
Barabra Kirsop
Electronic Publishing Trust for Development
(
http://www.epublishingtrust.org)
Subbiah Gunasekaran
Library and Information Services, Central Electrochemical Research
Institute, Karaikudi, India
Charles Oppenheim
Professor of Information Science, Loughborough University, UK
John MacColl
Head, Digital Library Division, Edinburgh University Library, Scotland
Deputy Director, IRI Scotland Project
James E. Till
Executive Committee Member, Project Open Source | Open Access, University
of Toronto, Canada
Katja Mruck
Director, Institut fuer Qualitative Forschung, Internationale Akademie,
Freie Universitaet Berlin, Germany
Editor "Forum: Qualitative Social Research"
Bob Parks
Department of Economics, Washington University, St. Louis, MO, USA
Thomas J. Walker
Professor Emeritus, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA
Harry S. Martin III
Henry N. Ess III Librarian & Professor of Law, Harvard Law School, USA
John Willinsky
Pacific Press Professor of Literacy and Technology, University of British
Columbia, Canada
Dan Hunter
Associate Professor of Legal Studies, The Wharton School, University of
Pennsylvania, USA
>From January 2007: Professor of Law, University of Melbourne, Australia
Penelope Pether
Professor of Law, Villanova University School of Law, PA USA
Michael W. Carroll
Associate Professor, Villanova University School of Law and Board Member,
Creative Commons
Norbert Lossau
Chief Information Officer, Scholarly Information/ Library Director,
Bielefeld University, Germany
Scientific coordinator of the European Project "DRIVER - Digital
Repository Infrastructure Vision for European Research"
S M Shahabuddin
Librarian, National AIDS Research Institute, Pune, India
Bill Hubbard
Manager, SHERPA, SHERPA/RoMEO, OpenDOAR. University of Nottingham, UK
Stephen Pinfield
Deputy Chief Information Officer and Director of Research and Learning
Resources, Information Services, University of Nottingham, UK
Director of SHERPA
Peter Morgan
Project Director, DSpace_at_Cambridge, Cambridge University Library,
University of Cambridge, UK
David C Prosser
Director, SPARC Europe
Thierry Chanier
Professor, Universite de Franche-Comte, France
Australian
Tom Cochrane
Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Technology, Information and Learning Support),
QUT
Paula Callan
e-Research Access Coordinator, QUT Library, QUT
Dubravka Cecez-Kecmanovic
Professor of Information Systems. Head of School of IS, Technology and
Management, UNSW
Carmel Maguire
Honorary Adjunct Associate Professor. Information Systems, Technology and
Management, UNSW
Maryanne Kennan
Graduate Research Student. Information Systems, Technology and
Management. UNSW
Eric Wainwright
Principal, eKnowledge Structures
Former Pro Vice-Chancellor (Information Services and Technologies), James
Cook University
Roger Clarke
Xamax Consultancy Pty Ltd
Visiting Prof: Baker Cyberspace Law & Policy Centre, UNSW; eCommerce
Program, University of Hong Kong
Alan Smith
Assistant Deputy Vice Chancellor, Global Learning Services, University of
Southern Queensland (RUBRIC Chair)
Peter Vamplew
Senior Lecturer, School of Information Technology and Mathematical
Sciences, University of Ballarat
Sit-ling Tull
RUBRIC Project Officer, Murdoch University
Young Ju Choi
Professor of Computing, Head of School of Computing, University of
Tasmania
Linda O'Brien
Vice-Principal Information, The University of Melbourne
Nicki McLaurin Smith
Director, Information Management, Information Services, The University of
Melbourne
Eve Young
Coordinator, Digital Repositories, Information Services, The University
of Melbourne
Jenny Edwards
Professor of Computer Science UTS, President Computing Research and
Education (CORE)
Tom Worthington
Director, Tomw Communications Pty Ltd, Director, ACS Communications Tech
Board, Visiting Fellow, ANU
Alison Hunter
Coordinator, USQ ePrints, University of Southern Queensland
Lakshmi Narasimhan
Professor in Software Engineering, The University of Newcastle
Christopher Lueg
Professor of Computing, University of Tasmania
Helen Mandl
Associate Librarian, Planning & Development, University of Wollongong
Michael Organ
Project Officer - Digital Services, University of Wollongong
Arthur Sale
Professor of Computing (Research), University of Tasmania, Australia
Received on Sat May 27 2006 - 03:15:29 BST