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November 17, 2004
NIH Public Access Policy Comments
Comments on the NIH Public Access Proposed Policy:
Elsevier
Insternational Association of Science, Technology and Medical Publishers
American Library Association
SPARC (Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition)
Posted by Donna Braquet at 11:51 AM
November 15, 2004
NIH Public Access Proposed Policy (powerpoint)
The NIH NIH Public Access Proposed Policy (powerpoint presentation).
Posted by Donna Braquet at 12:07 PM
November 10, 2004
Pre-print of article on Open Access
Mark J. McCabe and Christopher M. Snyder, A Model of Academic Journal Quality with Applications to Open-Access Journals
Abstract: "Previous research modeled academic journals as platforms connecting authors with readers in a two-sided market. This research used the same basic framework also used to study telephony, credit cards, video game consoles, etc. In this paper, we focus on a key difference between the market for academic journals and these other markets: journals vary in terms of quality, where a journal's quality determined by the quality of the papers it publishes. We provide a simple model of journal quality. As an illustration of the value of the model, we use it to address issues that have arisen in the recent debate concerning whether, in the Internet age, journals should become \open access" (freely available to readers, financed by author rather than subscriber fees). Among other issues, we examine (a) whether open-access journals would tend to publish more articles than traditional journals, moving further down the quality spectrum in order to boost revenue; (b) whether journal quality affects the profitability of adopting open access; and (c) whether submission fees or acceptance fees are better instruments to extract surplus from authors."
[source Open Access News]
Posted by Donna Braquet at 12:08 PM
Open Access to Biodiversity Information
On November 20, the third IUCN World Conservation Congress (Bangkok, November 17-25) will adopt the Conservation Commons Statement of Principles. Read more atOpen Access News
Posted by Donna Braquet at 11:59 AM
November 03, 2004
LANL Library gets funds to study research repository system
See summary at the Open Access News blog.
Posted by Donna Braquet at 10:03 AM
November 01, 2004
ARL releases comment on NIH Open Access Plan
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL)[University of Tennessee Libraries has membership] has publicly released its comment on the NIH OA plan. The comment, written by Prue Adler, endorses the plan for six reasons. It "[1] reflects the way scientists conduct research and discovery; [2] allows some libraries to provide additional resources to their users; [3] creates an archival resource for biomedical literature funded by NIH; [4] provides significant protections to commercial and not-for-profit publishers; [5] follows congressional and administration policy; and [6] expands and improves public access to biomedical information....ARL commends the NIH for crafting a measured and incremental step within long-standing NIH policy that does not impinge on grantees' or publishers' copyright and intellectual property nor interfere with the private, commercial marketplace. The proposal is designed to accelerate the pace of discovery, provide additional capabilities to NIH to manage its research portfolio, and enhance public access to biomedical literature."
Info found at Open Access News blog.
Posted by Donna Braquet at 03:45 PM