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February 25, 2005
U of California Announces a Postprint Archive
UC LAUNCHES POSTPRINTS SERVICE TO PROVIDE GREATER ACCESS TO UC SCHOLARSHIP
The University of California Office of Scholarly Communication today
announced the public launch of its new eScholarship postprints service.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
February 24, 2005
Jennifer Colvin, California Digital Library (510) 287-3384
jennifer.colvin@ucop.edu
UC LAUNCHES POSTPRINTS SERVICE TO PROVIDE GREATER ACCESS TO UC SCHOLARSHIP
Access to previously published articles written by UC faculty will be
available free online.
The University of California Office of Scholarly Communication today
announced the public launch of its new eScholarship postprints service.
Scholars have been increasingly seeking new ways to distribute the results
of their research, and postprints -- peer-reviewed articles that have been
previously published in academic journals -- have recently been at the
center of this movement to reshape scholarly publishing. The new
eScholarship postprints service provides scholars with another option for
regaining control of their scholarship and maximizing its availability and
influence.
In addition, the academic community and general public gain an
unprecedented opportunity to study the published results from the research
happening at all UC campuses and research centers. The repository can be
accessed here.
Added to the existing array of eScholarship Repository publishing services,
which include working paper series and online journals, the postprints
feature allows UC faculty who have retained the appropriate copyrights or
who obtain permission from their publishers to easily deposit previously
published articles into a publicly accessible online repository.
The postprints are fully searchable, available free of charge, and are
persistently maintained in a centrally managed database. The established
popularity of the repository, with more than one million full-text
downloads of content since 2002, makes it an ideal venue for faculty to
reach new audiences of researchers.
Public access to scholarly research
Increasingly, universities are establishing institutional repositories such
as the eScholarship Repository to disseminate research results. In a
parallel development, both public and private funders are requesting or
requiring public access to the results of research that they fund. Congress
has recognized the importance of open-access to taxpayer-funded published
research by instructing the National Institutes of Health to encourage
grant recipients to deposit published articles into another open-access
database, PubMed Central.
"The eScholarship postprint service gives UC faculty an important new
opportunity to manage their peer-reviewed research publications so they can
be accessed worldwide by anyone with an Internet connection," said George
Blumenthal, chair of UC's Universitywide Academic Senate and a professor of
astronomy and astrophysics. "This kind of broad access is vital to
scholarly communication and to the formation and support of global research
and learning communities."
The repository has allowed many UC faculty to extend the dissemination and
influence of their research.
William R. Schonfeld, a professor of political science and director of the
Center for the Study of Democracy at UC Irvine, said "the eScholarship
Repository has been an invaluable vehicle for sharing findings from our
center faculty and graduate fellows with a wide international audience.
After we joined the eScholarship Repository, we have seen the readership of
our paper series double each year."
Commitment to preserving scholarly information
However, the eScholarship program, established in 2000, is only partly
about access. It also demonstrates how seriously the University of
California takes its commitment to acting as steward over the vast well of
scholarly and cultural information that is produced by faculty, staff and
students, and acquired or created by its libraries and museums.
"These materials form a significant part of the scholarly and cultural
record," said M.R.C. Greenwood, University of California provost and senior
vice president for academic affairs. "They contribute directly to the
state's economic progress, educational advancement and cultural well-being.
"By providing access to these materials, UC can ensure its central position
in an evolving global marketplace for information and ideas. But their
value can only fully be realized if they persist through time. Only a
university is positioned to secure these assets in a way that will ensure
that they can be made accessible now and for future generations," she said.
UC faculty interested in joining the eScholarship Repository and depositing
papers via the new postprints service can find more information on the
eScholarship Repository Website.
About the eScholarship Repository
The eScholarship Repository is a project of the University of California
Office of Scholarly Communication's eScholarship program, which
was launched to facilitate innovation and support experimentation in the
production and dissemination of scholarship. The repository offers UC
departments, centers and research units direct control over the creation
and dissemination of the full range of their scholarship, from
pre-publication materials through journals and peer-reviewed series. The
Office of Scholarly Communication is housed in the California Digital Library.
About the California Digital Library
Through the use of technology and innovation, the California Digital
Library
scholarship for the University of California libraries and the communities
they serve. Established in 1997 as a UC library, the California Digital
Library has become one of the largest digital libraries in the world.
Posted by Donna Braquet at 03:21 PM
February 21, 2005
Open Access Program at AAAS Meeting
TRACK: Scientific Conduct and the Doing of Science
TITLE: Changing Scientific Publishing: Open Access and Implications for Working Scientists
DATE: Saturday, February 19, 2005
TIME: 2:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
ORGANIZERS: Bonnie C. Carroll, U.S. CENDI; Kathleen Cass, Committee On Data for Science and Technology; Barry Mahon, International Council for Scientific and Technical Information
PARTICIPANTS: * = invited, not yet confirmed.
Bonnie C. Carroll (Moderator), U.S. CENDI
Sir John Enderby (Speaker), Institute of Physics
Overview of the Classical Publishing Model and the New Model of Open Access
Mark McCabe (Speaker), Georgia Institute of Technology
The Economics of Open Access Publishing: a Strategic Perspective
Christopher M. Snyder (Speaker), George Washington University
CO W/McCABE
Helen Doyle (Speaker), Public Library of Science
Implementing a New Model for Scientific Publishing
Pieter Bolman (Speaker), International Association of Scientific, Technical, and Medical Publishers (STM)
A Commercial Publishers Perspective on Scientific Publishing and Open Access
Lenne P. Miller (Speaker), The Endocrine Society
Publishing Model for a Not-for-Profit Publisher Per Concepts of Open Access
Barry Mahon (Discussant), International Council for Scientific and Technical Information
AVAILABLE ABSTRACTS:
Publishing Model for a Not-for-Profit Publisher Per Concepts of Open Access
The Economics of Open Access Publishing: A Strategic Perspective
Overview of the Classical Publishing Model and the New Model of Open Access
Changing Scientific Publishing: Open Access & Implications for Scientists
Implementing a New Model for Scientific Publishing
A View from STM: A Trade Association's Perspective on Scientific Publishing
SYNOPSIS:
"Open Access" to scientific publications is a technical, economic, philosophical, and political concept. It was precipitated in large measure by the economic challenges of rising journal prices and libraries’ inabilities to continue to provide access to the needed array of journals for technical users. This economic reality led to questions about new models to provide access to the results of research. It led to analyzing and questioning the traditional model of the scientific publishing. At the same time, enabling information technologies have provided new options for "publishing" and disseminating research results. Open access became one rallying concept for those looking for an alternative to the traditional publishing model. People began to experiment. Ownership of copyright, how to finance publishing, and many other aspects of traditional publishing were explored. There have been movements in some disciplines for scientists to lead publishing experiments. These experiments and the increasingly informed debates have led to a better appreciation of the complexities of the publishing process. From an initially polarized discussion between publishers and libraries, the issues of new models are being tested and clarified. Whatever the future of scholarly scientific publishing, it will have to deal with issues of acquisition (or identification of appropriate material), verification and quality control, production, dissemination (location and access) and archiving. There will likely be fundamental changes in scientific publishing. The purpose of this symposium is to review open access as a publishing model and to bring the working scientist into the discussion in the AAAS context.
Posted by Donna Braquet at 05:14 PM
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Posted by Donna Braquet at 04:50 PM
February 15, 2005
Open Access Story on NPR
NIH to Deliver Free Access to Research [listen]
by David Malakoff
All Things Considered, February 3, 2005 · The National Institutes of Health unveils a plan to offer a Web site giving consumers free access to published government health studies. The plan comes after pressure from patient advocacy groups and Congress.
Posted by Donna Braquet at 03:47 PM
February 03, 2005
NIH Policy: Press Release
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced today a
new policy designed to accelerate the public's access to
published articles resulting from NIH-funded research. The
policy - the first of its kind for NIH - calls on
scientists to release to the public manuscripts from
research supported by NIH as soon as possible, and within
12 months of final publication.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Thursday, February 3, 2005
CONTACTS:
Don Ralbovsky
OD Office of Communications and Public Liaison
301-496-5787
NIH CALLS ON SCIENTISTS TO SPEED PUBLIC RELEASE OF RESEARCH
PUBLICATIONS
Online Archive Will Make Articles Accessible to the Public
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced today a
new policy designed to accelerate the public's access to
published articles resulting from NIH-funded research. The
policy - the first of its kind for NIH - calls on
scientists to release to the public manuscripts from
research supported by NIH as soon as possible, and within
12 months of final publication.
These peer-reviewed, NIH-funded research publications will
be available in a Web-based archive to be managed by the
National Library of Medicine (NLM), a component of NIH. The
online archive will increase the public's access to health-
related publications at a time when demand for such
information is on a steady rise.
"With the rapid growth in the public's use of the Internet,
NIH must take a leadership role in making available to the
public the research that we support," said NIH Director
Elias A. Zerhouni, M.D. "While this new policy is
voluntary, we are strongly encouraging all NIH-supported
researchers to release their published manuscripts as soon
as possible for the benefit of the public. Scientists have
a right to see the results of their work disseminated as
quickly and broadly as possible, and NIH is committed to
helping our scientists exercise this right. We urge
publishers to work closely with authors in implementing
this policy."
"In developing this policy, we made a concerted effort to
balance the importance of this archive to NIH's public
health mission, with the need to provide flexibility for
authors, their institutions, and publishers in those cases
where immediate release is not possible," Zerhouni added.
"NIH recognizes the importance of preserving quality peer
review and the viability of a diversity of publishing
models. Nevertheless, we expect that only in limited cases
will authors deem it necessary to select the longest delay
period."
The NIH policy will achieve several important goals,
including:
(1) creating a stable archive of peer-reviewed research
publications resulting from NIH-funded studies to ensure
the permanent preservation of these vital research
findings;
(2) securing a searchable compendium of these research
publications that NIH and its awardees can use to manage
more efficiently and to understand better their research
portfolios, monitor scientific productivity, and,
ultimately, help set research priorities; and
(3) making published results of NIH-funded research more
readily accessible to the public, health care providers,
educators, and scientists.
Beginning May 2, 2005, the policy requests that NIH-funded
scientists submit an electronic version of the author's
final manuscript, upon acceptance for publication,
resulting from research supported in whole or in part by
NIH. The author's final manuscript is defined as the final
version accepted for journal publication, and includes all
modifications from the publishing peer review process.
The policy gives authors the flexibility to designate a
specific time frame for public release - ranging from
immediate public access after final publication to a 12
month delay - when they submit their manuscripts to NIH.
Authors are strongly encouraged to exercise their right to
specify that their articles will be publicly available
through PubMed Central (PMC) as soon as possible.
PMC a part of the NIH's
National Library of Medicine (NLM), is the agency's digital
repository of full-text, peer-reviewed biomedical,
behavioral, and clinical research journals. It is a
publicly-accessible, stable, permanent, and searchable
electronic archive.
The release of this policy follows months of intensive
deliberations with representatives of patient and
scientific organizations, researchers, and publishers. NIH
posted the draft policy for public comment in September,
and received and reviewed over 6,000 public comments.
As part of on-going efforts to implement this new policy,
NIH plans to establish a Public Access Advisory Working
Group, as a subgroup of the NLM's Board of Regents. The
Working Group will include representatives of the patient
advocacy, scientific, library, and publishing communities,
and will provide advice on implementation issues and assess
progress in meeting the new policy's stated goals.
Additional information on the new policy and related
documents, including a "Questions and Answers" fact sheet.
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The NIH comprises the Office of the Director and 27
Institutes and Centers. The Office of the Director is the
central office at NIH, and is responsible for setting
policy for NIH and for planning, managing, and coordinating
the programs and activities of all the NIH components. The
NIH, the Nation's medical research agency, is a component
of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. It is
the primary Federal agency for conducting and supporting
basic, clinical, and translational medical research, and
investigates the causes, treatments, and cures for both
common and rare diseases.
Posted by Donna Braquet at 05:30 PM