Heather,
Of course we all know about FRPAA and the ATA. But the topic of this thread
was institutional mandates (in Germany), not publishers lobbying against
federal mandates (in the US).
Most periodicals worldwide have already given their authors a green light to
self-archive. So publishers cannot be held responsible for the failure of
most researchers (and librarians) to go ahead on the green light that their
publishers have given them.
Hélène Bosc
----- Original Message -----
From: "Heather Morrison" <hgmorris_at_SFU.CA>
To: <AMERICAN-SCIENTIST-OPEN-ACCESS-FORUM_at_LISTSERVER.SIGMAXI.ORG>
Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 2010 8:35 PM
Subject: Re: Springer and Helmholtz Association sign agreement for open
access membership
hi Helene,
The Alliance for Taxpayer Access follows progress on the proposed U.S.
Federal Research Public Access Act (FRPAA). The ATA page can be found
here:
http://www.taxpayeraccess.org/
An illustration of the current status of the debate can be found in
the Summary of the July 29th Committee hearing on FRPAA, available here:
http://www.taxpayeraccess.org/issues/access/access_resources/10-0814.shtml
In brief, this summary clearly indicates opposition to FRPAA basically
on business grounds by some traditional publisher representatives, as
well as pro-public access proponents. To me, it is noteworthy that
PLoS' Catherine Nancarrow is among the latter group. From my
perspective, this illustrates very well how open access publishing
(gold OA) supports open access archiving mandates, in two ways: 1)
countering opposition arguments by showing that there is a viable
business model for open access publishing and 2) direct support for
open access archiving mandates.
Since open access archive mandates is a key focus for this forum, I am
assuming that long-time followers would likely be aware that OA
mandates are vigorously opposed by some in the publishing community,
for business reasons.
best,
Heather Morrison
PhD Student, SFU School of Communication
http://pages.cmns.sfu.ca/heather-morrison/
The Imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics
http://poeticeconomics.blogspot.com
Received on Thu Aug 26 2010 - 15:17:15 BST