"We now have the tools at our disposal to do things differently, so
that's no longer an excuse. Everywhere the power of conventional
information distribution is quaking at the sound of millions of typing,
downloading, blogging and filesharing fingers..."
Self-archiving is a first step, but it's picking up slow. Almost all of
us have some web-space on the uni or college server? I do apologize for
singling someone out and I might have miscalculated, but I couldn't
help checking the IEHG editors' staff-pages for self-archived material
and eight (8; with a nice counting) out of the 20 has some up there.
Just to show the tendency, we could all start with what we do have.
On the forwarded below, I can't really break this down and give a short
commentary, but some might have heard of it regarding these issues?
at stumps,
jonas
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Jonas R Bylund, PhD
Dept. of Human Geography
Stockholm University
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The SPARC Open Access Newsletter, issue #107
March 2, 2007
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The Ides of February in Europe: The European Commission plan for open
access
The Ides of February were a turning point for OA in Europe. The
European Commission hosted a conference on scientific publishing
(Brussels, February 15-16, 2007) and kicked it off with a long-awaited,
non-binding "Communication" on its thinking about an EU-wide OA mandate
for EU-funded research.
The most important bit of background is that last year an
EC-commissioned report recommended --in its lead recommendation, A1--
that the EC "guarantee public access to publicly-funded research
results shortly after publication."
After the report came out, the EC opened a two-month public-comment
period (April-May 2006) and reported in October 2006 that
"participants...reacted positively overall....However, some caution was
expressed by publishers...." It promised to issue a Communication on
its deliberations at an EC-hosted conference in mid-February 2007.
As the Ides of February 2007 approached, friends and foes of a European
OA mandate began to weigh in. In January 2007, the Scientific Council
of the European Research Commission (ERC) pledged to adopt an OA
mandate "as soon as pertinent repositories become operational". About
a week later, the European Research Advisory Board (EURAB) recommended
an OA mandate for EU-funded research. A few days later, four public
funding agencies in Europe (in Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands, and
the UK) and SPARC Europe launched a petition calling for an EU-wide OA
mandate. Later in the month, the European University Association (EUA)
Working Group on Open Access joined the call for an OA mandate. On
February 13, two days before the Brussels Conference and in the same
city, 15 Belgian university rectors and two government ministers signed
the Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge. On the same day,
on the other side of the issue, 35 publishers and eight publisher
associations issued the Brussels Declaration, opposing the idea of an
OA mandate.
Here's a little timeline of the main events:
* March 31, 2006. The EC released an EC-commissioned report
recommending an EU-wide mandate for EU-funded research ("Study on the
Economic and Technical Evolution of the Scientific Publication Markets
in Europe" by Françoise Vandooren and Mathias Dewatripont, both of the
Université Libre de Bruxelles). The official date on the report is
January 2006.
* March 31 - June 1, 2006. The EC collects public comments on the
report.
* October 9, 2006. The EC released the public comments on the report
and a summary (favorable overall but with some reservations expressed
by publishers).
* January 2007. The Scientific Council of the European Research
Commission (ERC) pledged to adopt an OA mandate "as soon as pertinent
repositories become operational" (in a document dated December 2006 but
apparently not released until January 2007).
* January 10, 2007. The European Research Advisory Board (EURAB)
recommended an OA mandate for EU-funded research. EURAB was created by
the EC precisely to give advice on research policy.
* January 14, 2007. Four national research funders (DEFF, DFG, JISC,
SURF) and and SPARC Europe launched an online "Petition for guaranteed
public access to publicly-funded research results".
* January 26, 2007. The European University Association (EUA) Working
Group on Open Access endorsed the OA recommendations from the EC
report, ERC, and EURAB.
* February 13, 2007. Fifteen Belgian university rectors and two
government ministers signed the Berlin Declaration on Open Access to
Knowledge.
* February 13, 2007. A group of publishers and publisher associations
released the Brussels Declaration on STM Publishing, February 13, 2007,
opposing an OA mandate.
* February 14, 2007. Les Carr released the results of a poll of
EU-funded researchers: 86% supported an OA mandate for publicly-funded
research and 14% did not.
* February 15-16, 2007. The EC hosted a meeting in Brussels:
Scientific Publishing in the European Research Area - Access,
Dissemination, and Preservation in the Digital Age.
* February 15, 2007. OA proponents presented the "Petition for
guaranteed public access to publicly-funded research results" with over
20,000 signatures to Janez Potocnik, Commissioner of the EC's Research
Directorate-General.
* February 15, 2007. The EC released its long-awaited "Communication
on access to scientific information in the digital age" along with four
related documents: a Staff Working Paper, an FAQ, the text of Janez
Potocnik's opening address at the Brussels meeting, and a press
release.
After all this build-up, the EC Communication was somewhat
anti-climactic. And I must say, the lack of fireworks looks
deliberate. The two EC Directorates General most involved in OA
policy-making --Information Society and Media, headed by Vivian Reding,
and Research, headed by Janez Potocnik-- are trying to find a
diplomatic trail through a minefield. They are eager to show support
for the concerns on each side and postpone the day when they will have
to alienate one of them.
The Communication is not a policy but a pointer toward a future policy.
It sends two signals: first that the EC has been listening to
arguments from both sides and second, that all things considered it
wants to move toward OA. "Initiatives leading to wider access to and
dissemination of scientific information are necessary, especially with
regard to journal articles and research data produced on the basis of
public funding" (EC Communication, p. 7; link below). What it does not
do is squarely accept or reject the EC report's recommendation A1 for
an OA mandate.
* On the primary question of an OA mandate, the EC says only that it
will "issue specific guidelines on the publication of articles in open
repositories after an embargo period" (p. 8). It doesn't tell us when
it will issue the guidelines, whether the guidelines will require or
merely encourage OA, what the maximum permissible embargo will be, why
it hesitates to adopt recommendation A1, or what new information or
insights it needs before coming to a decision. It does tell us that
the guidelines will vary by discipline and funding program; hence even
if the rules in some areas are strong enough, others are likely to be
weak.
In her closing address at the Brussels meeting, Vivian Reding suggested
that the EC is not waiting for new information so much as a resolution
to an ongoing debate: "The key question in all this seems to be: how
to combine a rapid and wide dissemination of validated results with a
fair remuneration for those who make investments to make the system
work? As usual, the devil is in the detail. What is a fair
remuneration and what is an embargo period that makes a fair
remuneration possible? There is a need for a continued and constructive
debate on these issues." (See her address, p. 3; link below.)
This position would make more sense if the debate were still in its
early stages, or if the parties were closer together, or if the EC were
a neutral bystander. But none of these conditions holds.
I suggest that the role of the EC in this controversy is to find its
own interest, as a major funder of scientific research (more than €50
billion for FP7), and to assert that interest. If it waits for a
consensus of the other players, it will wait indefinitely and abdicate
its responsibility to European researchers and taxpayers.
To her credit, Reding acknowledges that the EC is a stakeholder, not a
bystander. Nevertheless, at least for now, she seems to see its role
as mediating a controversy rather than deciding it. Reding and
Potocnik should recognize that taxpayers are a major stakeholder in
this debate and are not otherwise represented at the table.
I'm not calling for a one-sided decision. Publishers and taxpayers
both make a contribution to the value of peer-reviewed articles arising
from publicly-funded research. When deciding how to give each group
its due, I've often argued that the EC report's recommendation A1 (or
alternatively, FRPAA) is a reasonable compromise: a period of
exclusivity for the publisher followed by permanent free online access
for the public. Publishers who want to block OA mandates per se,
rather than just negotiate the embargo period, are saying that they
want no compromise, that the public should get nothing for its
investment, and that publishers should control access to research
conducted by others, written up by others, and funded by taxpayers.
On three related issues the EC Communication is unhesitating and
positive:
* The EC will help pay publication fees at fee-based OA journals, a
position I have supported for funding agencies that can afford it.
"[P]roject costs related to publishing, including open access
publishing, will be eligible for a Community financial contribution"
(p. 8). This policy provides unembargoed OA, supports a new generation
of peer-review providers, and lessens --or ought to lessen-- the
opposition of publishers. The EC doesn't promise to pay whatever
publishers charge, and it goes beyond merely offering financial support
to positively encouraging researchers to take advantage of it. The
language suggests that the EC is also willing to help pay publication
fees (e.g. page and color charges) at non-OA journals.
The Communication uses the term "experiment" several times but doesn't
apply it specifically to this policy. However, the press release
accompanying the Communication does apply it to this policy. What
would lead the EC to continue, revise, or terminate this experiment?
So far, no word.
(Unfortunately, in discussing publication fees at OA journals the EC
still uses the misleading term "author pays" for OA journals and still
seems to believe that all OA journals charge publication fees when in
fact most of them do not.)
* The EC supports a strong policy of OA for data, following the OECD
Declaration on open data from January 2004, which the EU signed.
"Fully publicly funded research data should in principle be accessible
to all" (p. 8).
Will the EC require or merely encourage OA for data? Is there a
difference between the access policy we should have "in principle" and
the access policy the EC will adopt in practice? Will it host its own
OA data repositories or take advantage of distributed institutional
repositories? What steps will it take to protect the privacy of
research subjects in medical and social science research? What steps
will it take for data mark-up, interoperability, annotation, and
attribution? What steps will it take to encourage authors and
publishers to integrate journal articles with their underlying data?
So far, no word.
* The EC will generously fund OA infrastructure. It has budgeted about
€50 million for building and linking OA repositories throughout Europe,
and that's just for the two-year period 2007-08. In the same period it
will spend about €25 million on digital preservation. And in the
period 2005-08, it will spend €10 on the eContentPlus program "to
improve the accessibility and usability of scientific content, in
particular addressing issues of interoperability and multilingual
access" (p. 9).
This is the largest government allocation to OA infrastructure in
history, even after we subtract the portion primarily dedicated to
digital preservation.
(The Communication spends as much time on long-term preservation as it
does on open access. While I support digital preservation initiatives,
and think they strengthen OA initiatives, I omit them here in order to
focus on the direct OA issues.)
* Finally, the Communication outlines a process for moving forward.
The EC will take up OA policy with the European Parliament and Council
of Ministers. It invites member states to "explore common strategies".
It will continue to consult with stakeholders. And it will launch a
study of digital preservation and "support research" on the scientific
publication in Europe and beyond, "for example on publication business
models, dissemination strategies, and the connections between research
excellence, scientific integrity and the scientific publication system"
(p. 9).
* The 18-page "Staff Working Paper" accompanying the Communication does
a very good job of embedding the policy questions in context: the rise
of digital technologies, the rise of journal prices, the rise in
government research budgets, the rise of OA, the growing number of
journals, the growing volume of data, and the benefits of enhancing
access to research. It doesn't shed new light on the EC's future OA
policy except by making much of the case for OA without explicitly
drawing the conclusion.
That's all we have so far. The announced policies all favor OA and the
major unannounced policy (on OA archiving) has been framed by pro-OA
arguments. Opponents of an OA mandate found little to praise. Putting
the best face on it, the STM's February 15 press release praised the
EC's "interest...in scientific publishing", its desire for "continuing
dialogue", and its very lack of a policy decision, as if the EC were
"recognising that further research on preservation and economics is
essential before adopting any policy positions."
* Where does this leave us?
We have to keep working for a simple, enforceable mandate on OA
archiving for publicly-funded research. We have to take advantage of
the fact that the future guidelines are still under development. We
have to show that OA policies relying only on requests and
encouragement fail, as documented by the NIH. We have to show that the
research community is calling for an OA mandate, for example through
the EC's own study
> from last year, the European Research Council
(ERC), the European Research Advisory Board (EURAB), the European
University Association (EUA), and the now-22,800+ signatures on the OA
petition.
We have to show that there are ways to satisfy some publisher concerns
without abandoning an OA mandate, for example, by mandating immediate
deposit without immediate OA, allowing a reasonable embargo period on
OA, and applying the policy to the final version of the author's
peer-reviewed manuscript rather than the published version. We have to
show that further concessions to publishers will put the financial
interests of a private industry ahead of the public interest in
advancing research and jeopardize the mission of the EU's public
funding agencies.
We have to be fully involved in the future stakeholder consultations.
When the question moves to the European Parliament for discussion and
debate, we have to anticipate relentless and well-funded publisher
lobbying. We have to help members understand the issues, make clear
that publishers who oppose an OA mandate do not speak for researchers,
and make clear that researchers need OA.
Note that the Communication and Staff Working Paper must have been in
final or near-final form well before the Brussels conference. Hence,
neither the pro-OA petition nor the anti-OA Brussels Declaration
affected their language. But they could well affect the language of
the future policy on OA archiving. For that reason, the petition is
still open for signatures and we cannot relax the effort to communicate
the need for OA and its benefits to researchers and research
institutions throughout Europe.
* Here are the documents and events I mentioned above, with a few
related links:
Study on the Economic and Technical Evolution of the Scientific
Publication Markets in Europe, January 2006 (released March 31, 2006).
This is the report by Françoise Vandooren and Mathias Dewatripont,
commissioned by the EC, that recommended an OA mandate.
http://europa.eu.int/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=IP/06/
414&format=HTML&aged=0&language=EN&guiLanguage=en
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/
2006_04_02_fosblogarchive.html#114407521001187068
My SOAN article about the EC report
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/newsletter/05-02-06.htm#ecreport
EC summary of the public comments on the report, October 9, 2006
http://cordis.europa.eu/fetch?CALLER=NEWSLINK_EN_C&RCN=26464&ACTION=D
http://ec.europa.eu/research/science-society/document_library/pdf_06/
synthesis-consultation_en.pdf
EC home page on scientific publications and research policy
http://ec.europa.eu/research/science-society/page_en.cfm?id=3184
Scientific Council of the European Research Council (ERC)
http://europa.eu.int/erc/index_en.cfm
ERC Scientific Council Statement on Open Access, December 2006 (not
apparently released or noticed until January 2007)
http://erc.europa.eu/pdf/open-access.pdf
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/
2006_12_31_fosblogarchive.html#116792021437140697
European Research Advisory Board (EURAB)
http://ec.europa.eu/research/eurab/index_en.html
EURAB's report: Scientific Publication: Policy On Open Access (dated
December 2006 but released January 10, 2007)
http://ec.europa.eu/research/eurab/pdf/
eurab_scipub_report_recomm_dec06_en.pdf
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/
2007_01_07_fosblogarchive.html#116845221537275857
European University Association (EUA)
http://www.eua.be/eua/index.jsp
Statement from the European University Association (EUA) Working Group
on Open Access, January 26, 2007
http://www.eua.be/fileadmin/user_upload/files/newsletter/
EUA_WG_open_access.pdf
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/
2007_01_28_fosblogarchive.html#117043049723197107
Fifteen Belgian university rectors and two government ministers signed
the Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge --in Brussels, two
days before the EC-hosted Brussels conference on scientific publishing,
February 13, 2007.
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/
2007_02_11_fosblogarchive.html#117138244311867457
Brussels Declaration on STM Publishing, February 13, 2007
http://www.stm-assoc.org/documents-statements-public-co/
2007%20BRUSSELS%20DECLARATION%20130207.pdf
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/
2007_02_11_fosblogarchive.html#117138731546079566
STM press release accompanying the Brussels Declaration, February 13,
2007
http://www.stm-assoc.org/press-releases/
2007.02%20Brussels%20Declaration%20Press%20Release%20130207.pdf
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/
2007_02_11_fosblogarchive.html#117140094833622661
Les Carr, The EC Petition and the EC Poll, a message posted to several
discussion lists, February 14, 2007
https://mx2.arl.org/Lists/SPARC-OAForum/Message/3604.html
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/
2007_02_11_fosblogarchive.html#117146708270624318
Petition for Guaranteed Public Access to Publicly-Funded Research.
Launched January 14, 2007, delivered to the EC February 15, 2007, and
still open for signatures.
http://www.ec-petition.eu/
EC Communication on access to scientific information in the digital
age, February 15, 2007
http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/activities/digital_libraries/
doc/scientific_information/communication_en.pdf
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/
2007_02_11_fosblogarchive.html#117166447907611213
EC Staff Working Paper to accompany the Communication, February 15, 2007
http://ec.europa.eu/doc/scientific_information/swp_en.pdf
http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/activities/digital_libraries/
doc/scientific_information/swp_en.pdf
EC FAQ on the Communication
http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=MEMO/07/
57&format=HTML&aged=0&language=EN&guiLanguage=en
Janez Potocnik's opening address at the Brussels meeting, February 15,
2007
http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=SPEECH/07/
83&format=HTML&aged=0&language=EN&guiLanguage=en
EC press release on the documents released on February 15, 2007
http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=IP/07/
190&format=HTML&aged=0&language=EN&guiLanguage=en
Worldwide petition on open access delivered to European Commission, a
press release from JISC, February 15, 2007.
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/news/stories/2007/02/news_petition2.aspx
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/
2007_02_11_fosblogarchive.html#117157072527428629
Scientific Publishing in the European Research Area - Access,
Dissemination, and Preservation in the Digital Age (Brussels, February
15-16, 2007). This is the EC-hosted conference where the Communication
was released and the petition presented.
http://ec.europa.eu/research/science-society/page_en.cfm?id=3459
STM press release on EC Communication, February 15, 2007
http://www.stm-assoc.org/press-releases/
2007.02%20STM%20Press%20Release%20EC%20Communication%20on%20Scientific%2
0Information.pdf
OECD Declaration on Access to Research Data From Public Funding,
January 30, 2004
http://www.oecd.org/document/
0,2340,en_2649_34487_25998799_1_1_1_1,00.html
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/
2004_01_25_fosblogarchive.html#107548330956944309
Viviane Reding's closing address at the Brussels meeting, February 16,
2007
http://ec.europa.eu/commission_barroso/reding/docs/speeches/
scientific_info_en.pdf
* Here's some news and comment on the February events in Brussels:
Joan Bakewell, A blow to the idea that knowledge is for all to share,
The Independent, February 2, 2007.
http://comment.independent.co.uk/columnists_a_l/joan_bakewell/
article2208220.ece
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/
2007_02_11_fosblogarchive.html#117148552910352618
Philipp Berens, Forscher fordern freien Zugang zu wissenschaftlichen
Arbeiten, Jetzt, February 4, 2007.
http://jetzt.sueddeutsche.de/texte/anzeigen/359206
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/
2007_02_04_fosblogarchive.html#117114564710510155
Jessica Shepherd, Open season for researchers, The Guardian, February
13, 2007.
http://education.guardian.co.uk/higher/news/story/0,,2011534,00.html
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/
2007_02_11_fosblogarchive.html#117134075161471574
The Brussels Declaration on STM Publishing, February 13, 2007.
http://www.stm-assoc.org/documents-statements-public-co/
2007%20BRUSSELS%20DECLARATION%20130207.pdf
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/
2007_02_11_fosblogarchive.html#117138731546079566
William Walsh, The Brussels Declaration on STM Publishing, Issues in
Scholarly Communication, February 13, 2007.
http://www.library.gsu.edu/news/index.asp?
view=details&ID=12123&typeID=62
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/
2007_02_11_fosblogarchive.html#117146640277559255
Heather Morrison, The Mission of the STM Publisher: Scholarship - or
Profit? Imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics, February 13, 2007.
http://poeticeconomics.blogspot.com/2007/02/mission-of-stm-publisher-
scholarship-or_13.html
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/
2007_02_11_fosblogarchive.html#117146797707516547
Mark Chillingworth, Publishers fire broadside at EU open access
ambitions, Information World Review, February 15, 2007.
http://blog.iwr.co.uk/2007/02/publishers_fire.html
Matt Hodgkinson, Declaration of Pomposity, and a Declaration of War?
Journalology, February 15, 2007.
http://journalology.blogspot.com/2007/02/declaration-of-pomposity-
and.html
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/
2007_02_11_fosblogarchive.html#117154715249598470
Paul Meller, EU to push online publication of scientific data,
InfoWorld, February 15, 2007.
http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/02/15/HNeuonlinescience_1.html
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/
2007_02_11_fosblogarchive.html#117158738850609473
EU outlines digital age strategy, The Parliament, February 15, 2007.
http://www.eupolitix.com/EN/News/200702/c6bf9dcb-087a-4530-8d8d-
d97db36b5a7e.htm
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/
2007_02_11_fosblogarchive.html#117158789001349878
EU To Support More Cost-Free Access To Research Results, Wall Street
Journal, February 15, 2007.
http://users2.wsj.com/lmda/do/checkLogin?mg=wsj-
users2&url=http%3A%2F%2Fonline.wsj.com%2Farticle%2FBT-CO-20070215
-704322.html%3Fmod%3Ddist_smartbrief
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/
2007_02_11_fosblogarchive.html#117158932156423604
Self-Evident? In a Shot at Public Access Advocates, Publishers Release
Brussels Declaration, Library Journal Academic Newswire, February 15,
2007.
http://www.libraryjournal.com/clear/CA6416849.html?nid=2673#news2
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/
2007_02_11_fosblogarchive.html#117159008035988347
Charles W. Bailey, Jr., The Brussels Declaration: You Don’t Need a
Weatherman to Know Which Way the Wind Blows, DigitalKoans, February 15,
2007.
http://digital-scholarship.org/digitalkoans/2007/02/15/the-brussels-
declaration-you-dont-need-a-weatherman-to-know-which-way-the-wind-
blows/
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/
2007_02_11_fosblogarchive.html#117164666055281493
Open access to scientific publishing draws controversy, EurActiv,
February 16, 2007.
http://www.euractiv.com/en/science/open-access-scientific-publishing-
draws-controversy/article-161757
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/
2007_02_11_fosblogarchive.html#117163101578090369
Stevan Harnad, Impressions from Brussels EC Meeting, Open Access
Archivangelism, February 17, 2007.
http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/206-Impressions-from-
Brussels-EC-Meeting.html
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/
2007_02_11_fosblogarchive.html#117175096688225982
Commission outlines measures to ensure access to scientific
information, CORDIS News, February 17, 2007.
http://cordis.europa.eu/fetch?CALLER=EN_NEWS&ACTION=D&SESSION=&RCN=27152
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/
2007_02_11_fosblogarchive.html#117175342468587858
Glyn Moody, EU on OA: A Big Fat Nullity, Open..., February 19, 2007.
http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2007/02/eu-on-oa-big-fat-nullity.html
European Commission discusses future of scientific publishing, a press
release from JISC, February 19, 2007.
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/news/stories/2007/02/news_ecconf.aspx
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/
2007_02_18_fosblogarchive.html#117199377043118666
More experiments needed to find best open access models, CORDIS News,
February 19, 2007.
http://cordis.europa.eu/fetch?CALLER=EN_NEWS&ACTION=D&SESSION=&RCN=27163
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/
2007_02_18_fosblogarchive.html#117189704664539129
EC outlines information-access plans, Research Information, February
20, 2007.
http://www.researchinformation.info/news/news_story.php?news_id=31
Open-access petition presented to EC, Research Information, February
20, 2007.
http://www.researchinformation.info/news/news_story.php?news_id=32
Stefan Krempl, EU-Kommission fördert Open-Access-Publikationen, Heise
online, February 20, 2007.
http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/85512
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/
2007_02_18_fosblogarchive.html#117199063530232731
European Commission Issues Report on Scientific Information, Library
Journal Academic Newswire, February 22, 2007.
http://www.libraryjournal.com/clear/CA6418750.html?nid=2673#news1
Europe not yet ready for mandatory open-access, Sciencesque, February
23, 2007.
http://sciencesque.wordpress.com/2007/02/23/europe-not-yet-ready-for-
mandatory-open-access/
Martin Enserink, European Union Steps Back From Open-Access Leap,
Science Magazine, February 23, 2007.
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/315/5815/1065a
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/
2007_02_18_fosblogarchive.html#117226732051064893
Improving access to European-funded research results, European Public
Health Alliance, February 28, 2007.
http://www.epha.org/a/2525
Steve Hitchcock, Poll shows popular support for proposed EC
Self-Archiving Mandate, Eprints Insiders, March 1, 2007.
http://www.eprints.org/community/blog/index.php?/archives/189-Poll-
shows-popular-support-for-proposed-EC-Self-Archiving-Mandate.html
Stevan Harnad, Feedback on the Brussels EC Meeting on Open Access, Open
Access Archivangelism, March 1, 2007.
http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/209-Feedback-on-the-
Brussels-EC-Meeting-on-Open-Access.html
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/
2007_02_25_fosblogarchive.html#117275894289986405
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The Ides of February in the US: The National Day of Action and other
preparation for FRPAA
In the US, FreeCulture and the Alliance for Taxpayer Access declared
February 15 to be a National Day of Action for Open Access. At
campuses across the country, students staged events to build support
for FRPAA and celebrate the fifth birthday of the BOAI (on the 14th).
FreeCulture is an international student movement active in copyright
and patent reform, consumer rights, accountable voting systems, and
freedom of expression. Its support for open access is most welcome.
It understands the student stake in OA as well as the benefits for
faculty, universities, libraries, physicians, patients, and taxpayers.
It brings a fresh perspective, new energy, and 30 campus chapters
across the US and several abroad. It has invaluable contacts with the
next generation of publishing researchers, academic librarians,
university administrators, journal editors, society officers,
foundation managers, and legislators.
February 15 was a day of OA education and consciousness raising. The
University of Southern California hosted public talks by Cory Doctorow
and Sasha Chock, and the University of Florida hosted public talks by
Gavin Baker, Ashley Wills, and Stephanie Haas. Swarthmore, Emerson,
and Reed Colleges, among others, set out tables of OA information
staffed by volunteers.
Harvard students submitted a pro-OA op-ed to the Harvard Crimson,
announced an OA forum for the following week, and handed out OA
bookmarks. Above all, they launched an OA Thesis Repository for
undergraduate senior theses. The repository should become a regular
part of student scholarship at Harvard, expose students to
self-archiving, and of course give their work a larger audience and
greater impact. The repository started accepting deposits yesterday.
MIT students printed up "overprice tags" and stuck them on the print
volumes of the 100 journals for which MIT pays more than $5,000/year.
Each tag showed the name of the journal, the subscription price, the
publisher, and a URL for an MIT page on OA. (Link to photos below.)
MIT librarians had already created a web page listing the journals
costing the institution more that $5,000/year --an idea that other
institutions could emulate.
Students weren't the only ones gearing up for the re-introduction of
FRPAA:
Randy Dotinga of Wired News got the first public confirmation that
Senator John Cornyn does indeed plan to re-introduce FRPAA in the
current session of Congress.
Thirty-nine patient and consumer organizations sent open letters to
Senators John Cornyn, Joe Lieberman, and Susan Collins in support of
FRPAA. The signatories included groups like the AIDS Vaccine Advocacy
Coalition, Arthritis Foundation, Center for Science in the Public
Interest, and Parent Project Muscular Dystrophy.
Publishers in the DC Principles Coalition issued a press release and
petition opposing OA mandates for publicly-funded research.
As long as I'm listing February events that anticipated the
re-introduction of FRPAA, I should mention my article in the February
SOAN, "Twelve reminders about FRPAA". I hope it arms activists and
journalists against the kinds of misunderstandings and
misrepresentations we saw last year and are already starting to see
this year.
* Here are some links on the National Day of Action for OA:
FreeCulture.org
http://www.freeculture.org/
FreeCulture's chapters
http://freeculture.org/chapters/
Alliance for Taxpayer Access (ATA)
http://www.taxpayeraccess.org
Press release on the National Day of Action from FreeCulture.org and
the Alliance for Taxpayer Access, February 1, 2007
http://www.taxpayeraccess.org/media/Release07-0201.html
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/
2007_01_28_fosblogarchive.html#117042463056690445
FreeCulture's list of events for the National Day of Action
http://freeculture.org/blog/2007/02/15/events-for-national-day-of-
action-for-open-access/
MIT's announcement of the National Day of Action
http://epsilon.media.mit.edu/openaccess/
MIT events for the National Day of Action
http://news-libraries.mit.edu/blog/archives/373
Slideshow of the MIT Student Day of Action for Open Access
http://www.flickr.com/photos/nic221/sets/72157594537521716
Overprice Tags, an MIT project for the national day of action
http://mako.cc/fun/overpricetags/
MIT's (pre-existing) list of journal subscriptions costing more than
$5,000/year
http://web.archive.org/web/20050828210650/libraries.mit.edu/about/
scholarly/expensive-titles.html
Ellen Duranceau, A Conversation with Benjamin Mako Hill, organizer of
the MIT Student Day of Action for Open Access, MIT Library News,
undated but c. February 22, 2007.
http://news-libraries.mit.edu/blog/archives/374
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/
2007_02_18_fosblogarchive.html#117224172047878155
Harvard events for the National Day of Action
http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/~freeculture/blog/?p=65
The OA bookmark distributed at Harvard and other campuses
http://www.rrrojer.net/fc/bookmark-neu-rev4.png
The presentations from the Panel on open access research (Gainesville,
Florida, February 15, 2007)
http://uf.freeculture.org/2007/02/17/slides-from-open-access-panel-feb
-15/
* Here's some other February news and comment on FRPAA:
Letter from 39 patient and consumer organizations wrote a letter to
Senators John Cornyn and Joe Lieberman in support of FRPAA, February
16, 2007.
http://www.cptech.org/a2k/cornyn-lieberman-public-access-letter.pdf
--Letter from the same organizations to another to Senator Susan
Collins in support of FRPAA, Febryary 16, 2007.
http://www.cptech.org/a2k/collins-lieberman-public-access-letter.pdf
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/
2007_02_18_fosblogarchive.html#117211658589356629
Nonprofit publishers oppose government mandates for scientific
publishing, a press release from the DC Principles Coalition, February
20, 2007.
http://www.dcprinciples.org/press/2.htm
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/
2007_02_18_fosblogarchive.html#117202895951705271
The DC Principles Coalition launched a petition in support of society
publishers who oppose FRPAA, c. February 21, 2007.
http://www.dcprinciples.org/DCPS_PETITION/DCPS_PETITION/Petition.aspx
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/
2007_02_18_fosblogarchive.html#117216682166251750
Stevan Harnad, The DC Coalition: A Matter of Principle, Open Access
Archivangelism, February 22, 2007.
http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/207-The-DC-Coalition-
A-Matter-of-Principle.html
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/
2007_02_18_fosblogarchive.html#117216219543837662
Randy Dotinga, Senator's Spokesman: Open-Access Bill Will Return, Wired
News, February 22, 2007.
http://blog.wired.com/biotech/2007/02/senators_spokes.html
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/
2007_02_18_fosblogarchive.html#117215313735777466
Tracey Caldwell, STM manifesto rubbishes open access research,
Information World Review, March 2, 2007.
http://www.iwr.co.uk/information-world-review/news/2184595/stm-
manifesto-rubbishes-open
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Round-up
Here's what happened, or what I noticed, since the last issue,
emphasizing action and policy over scholarship and opinion. I put the
most important items first, with double asterisks, and otherwise
cluster them loosely by topic. Most of the time, I link to my blog
postings, not to the sources themselves, because I only want to include
one link and my blog postings usually bring many relevant links
together.
Because this section focuses on action and policy, it skips over
several dust-ups in February about pitbulls, Barbie dolls, and slavery.
(Aren't you glad?)
** The European Commission (EC) released its long-awaited, non-binding
"Communication on access to scientific information in the digital age"
along with a Staff Working Paper and FAQ.
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/
2007_02_11_fosblogarchive.html#117163624319006465
** Ronald Plasterk, one of the best-known OA proponents in the
Netherlands, was appointed the country's minister of education,
culture, and science.
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/
2007_02_18_fosblogarchive.html#117237322053868405
** Philip Esler, Chief Executive of England's Arts & Humanities
Research Council (AHRC), confirmed to Richard Poynder that the AHRC
plans to adopt an OA mandate for AHRC-funded research.
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/
2007_02_25_fosblogarchive.html#117250305558474649
** Senator John Cornyn's office confirmed to Randy Dotinga that the
Senator will reintroduce FRPAA in the current session of Congress.
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/
2007_02_18_fosblogarchive.html#117215313735777466
** The University of California is considering a draft OA mandate.
Instead of requiring faculty to deposit their work in an OA repository,
it would require them to give the university permission to disseminate
an OA copy.
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/
2007_02_11_fosblogarchive.html#117168794313780563
** Novartis provided OA to data on the human genes most likely to be
associated with diabetes.
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/
2007_02_11_fosblogarchive.html#117132640076420288*
** The American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB) released a position
statement on public access to scientific literature, calling for OA to
publicly funded research within six months of its publication.
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/
2007_02_04_fosblogarchive.html#117081224409020774
** The ATLAS Experiment at CERN released a Statement on Open Access
Publishing encouraging its 1,800 participating scientists to publish
their results in OA journals. (CERN scientists already operate under
an OA archiving mandate.)
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/
2007_02_25_fosblogarchive.html#117258357515257232
** FreeCulture.org and the Alliance for Taxpayer Access declared
February 15, 2007, to be a National Day of Action for Open Access and
FRPAA.
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/
2007_01_28_fosblogarchive.html#117042463056690445
* The e-Infrastructure Working Group of the UK Office of Science and
Innovation issued a report endorsing the RCUK's OA mandate.
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/
2007_02_04_fosblogarchive.html#117095091310783347
* The Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC) released a draft
Provosts' Statement On Publishing Agreements. It includes an author
addendum enabling scholars to retain the rights they need to authorize
postprint archiving.
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/
2007_02_11_fosblogarchive.html#117133978974130570
* The American Association of University Presses (AAUP) released a
Statement on Open Access. It expresses some skepticism about fee-based
OA journals and a willingness to explore mixed business models and OA
monographs.
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/
2007_02_25_fosblogarchive.html#117261116789135561
* The Research Information Network published a report, prepared by
Rightscom, on the OA and related policies of UK funding agencies.
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/
2007_02_04_fosblogarchive.html#117082262760176823
* The Research Information Network published a document, Research and
the Scholarly Communications Process: Towards Strategic Goals for
Public Policy: A Statement of Principles, which has been signed by an
unusual combination of friends and foes of OA.
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/
2007_02_25_fosblogarchive.html#117268874388567040
* The European Research Council, which has pledged to adopt an OA
mandate, officially launched on February 27 at a meeting in Berlin.
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/
2007_02_25_fosblogarchive.html#117271597620322072
* Thirty-nine patient and consumer organizations wrote a letter to
Senators John Cornyn and Joe Lieberman, and another to Senator Susan
Collins, in support of FRPAA, February 16, 2007.
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/
2007_02_18_fosblogarchive.html#117211658589356629
* The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) adopted reforms
favoring the "development agenda", which includes stronger protections
for the public domain. In June we'll know what the reformed WIPO
thinks of the Access to Knowledge Treaty, which includes a requirement
for OA to publicly-funded research.
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/
2007_02_25_fosblogarchive.html#117242214622552042
* AlouetteCanada, the digitization and OA project for Canadian cultural
heritage, issued a Declaration that includes language supporting OA.
The Declaration is undated but appears to be new.
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/
2007_02_18_fosblogarchive.html#117224996625893301
* Francis Ouellette posted an Open Access declaration for the Ouellette
Laboratory on his lab's web site.
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/
2007_02_04_fosblogarchive.html#117106117434735993
* On the first day of the EC-hosted Brussels conference (February 15),
OA proponents delivered a petition with over 20,000 signatures to Janez
Potocnik, EU Commissioner for Science and Research. The petition
called for guaranteed public access to publicly-funded research in
Europe.
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/
2007_02_11_fosblogarchive.html#117157072527428629
* A group of publishers and publisher associations released the
Brussels Declaration on STM Publishing on February 13, 2007.
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/
2007_02_11_fosblogarchive.html#117138731546079566
* The STM press release on the Brussels Declaration gave evidence,
perhaps inadvertently, that publishers had seen an advance copy of the
EC Communication.
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/
2007_02_11_fosblogarchive.html#117140094833622661
* Les Carr conducted a poll of EU-funded researchers showing that 86%
supported OA to publicly-funded research.
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/
2007_02_11_fosblogarchive.html#117146708270624318
* Ohio University's Russ College of Engineering and Technology and
Center for International Studies now require electronic submission of
theses and dissertations.
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/
2007_02_04_fosblogarchive.html#117088517168799104
* The Bowling Green State University Libraries and the Francis Countway
Library of Medicine at Harvard Medical School joined the Alliance for
Taxpayer Access.
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/
2007_02_18_fosblogarchive.html#117233271526770369
* The Wikimedia Foundation signed the Berlin Declaration on Open Access
to Knowledge.
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/
2007_02_18_fosblogarchive.html#117216363169328124
* The Swedish Association for Information Specialists, Vrije
Universiteit Amsterdam, and the Institute for Metal Forming and Casting
at the Technische Universität München have signed the Berlin
Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge.
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/
2007_02_25_fosblogarchive.html#117269143150701932
* SURF announced that all the universities in the Netherlands have now
signed the Berlin Declaration.
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/
2007_02_25_fosblogarchive.html#117276717548295651
* Fifteen Belgian university rectors and two government ministers
signed the Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge --in
Brussels, two days before the EC-hosted Brussels conference on
scientific publishing.
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/
2007_02_11_fosblogarchive.html#117138244311867457
* Students at Harvard College Free Culture launched an OA Thesis
Repository for undergraduate senior theses.
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/
2007_02_11_fosblogarchive.html#117155629132330987
* The Manchester Information and Associated Services (MIMAS) has
received an £8.4 million grant from the UK's Economic & Social Research
Council to provide free online access to government information.
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/
2007_02_25_fosblogarchive.html#117251305362825703
* The Synergies project received $5.8 million grant from the Canadian
Foundation of Innovation to develop scholarly publishing technologies.
The grant includes work with Erudit and Open Journal Systems.
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/
2007_02_11_fosblogarchive.html#117157148305514608
* The Directory of Open Access Journals launched a membership program.
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/
2007_02_11_fosblogarchive.html#117140560259690869
* The Directory of Open Access Repositories (OpenDOAR) added 16 new
graphs to show the state of the repositories in the directory.
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/
2007_02_25_fosblogarchive.html#117250542985056164
* India's National Centre for Science Information launched CASSIR
(Cross Archive Search Services for Indian Repositories). CASSIR
currently indexes 15 of India's OA, OAI-compliant repositories and is
working to index the rest.
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/
2007_02_25_fosblogarchive.html#117250005365771505
* Catalysis Database is a new OA repository from India's National
Centre for Catalysis Research.
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/
2007_02_25_fosblogarchive.html#117242839838682337
* The Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) released its
Census of Institutional Repositories in the United States.
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/
2007_02_18_fosblogarchive.html#117232540862402578
* The Alexandria Archive Institute officially launched Open Context,
its OA repository and portal for archaeological data.
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/
2007_02_04_fosblogarchive.html#117088994401362336
* The University of Liverpool is preparing to launch an institutional
repository and calling on interested faculty and departments to
participate in a pre-launch pilot project.
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/
2007_02_18_fosblogarchive.html#117199147859674196
* The Hong Kong Jockey Club donated $80 million to create Hong Kong
Memory, an OA repository for the cultural heritage of Hong Kong.
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/
2007_02_11_fosblogarchive.html#117146859615596302
* Creative Commons launched the 3.0 versions of its licenses.
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/
2007_02_18_fosblogarchive.html#117233568863708342
* The DC Principles Coalition issued a press release opposing
government mandates for scientific publishing (i.e. opposing a
reintroduction of FRPAA), February 20, 2007.
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/
2007_02_18_fosblogarchive.html#117202895951705271
* The DC Principles Coalition launched a petition in support of society
publishers who oppose FRPAA, c. February 21, 2007.
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/
2007_02_18_fosblogarchive.html#117216682166251750
* BioMed Central discovered that seven of the 10 most popular web sites
in biology are OA, according to Alexa.
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/
2007_02_18_fosblogarchive.html#117216468656718551
* Springer merged Foundation of Physics Letters with Foundations of
Physics, making the former an OA section of the latter.
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/
2007_02_18_fosblogarchive.html#117181063178814922
* Hindawi converted its last two subscription-based journals to OA and
is now an OA-only publisher.
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/
2007_02_18_fosblogarchive.html#117209238438141687
* Hindawi Publishing launched 10 new OA journals, the most by any
publisher since May 2000 when BMC launched 57 OA journals.
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/
2007_02_04_fosblogarchive.html#117073731238070661
* PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases opened for submissions.
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/
2007_01_28_fosblogarchive.html#117053455351268919
* The National Library of Australia was reported to be experimenting
with Open Journal Systems in preparation for publishing OA journals.
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/
2007_02_04_fosblogarchive.html#117073606523213665
* Google President and co-founder Larry Page gave a talk at the AAAS
meeting in which called on scientists to "unlock" their work and make
it more "accessible to the world".
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/
2007_02_18_fosblogarchive.html#117183879653303422
* A Belgian court decided that Google must stop including newspaper
headlines among its search returns. The Belgian newspapers that
brought suit are now vindicated and invisible.
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/
2007_02_11_fosblogarchive.html#117147986128743164
* Princeton University joined the Google Library Project.
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/
2007_02_04_fosblogarchive.html#117078935968573062
* The University of Michigan Library posted some usability data on
MBooks, the ebooks digitized
> from the Michigan library by the Google Library Project.
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/
2007_02_18_fosblogarchive.html#117233516414679950
* PubDrug released its first seven peer-reviewed OA drug monographs.
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/
2007_02_25_fosblogarchive.html#117267495093118774
* BioMed Central launched three blogs, one for BMC itself, one for
Chemistry Central and one for PhysMath Central.
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/
2007_02_11_fosblogarchive.html#117166676819934847
* The Budapest Open Access Initiative celebrated its fifth anniversary
on February 14.
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/
2007_02_11_fosblogarchive.html#117146494448761111
* German researchers criticized an access-limiting an agreement between
a German library association (Deutscher Bibliotheksverband) and a trade
association of German publishers (Börsenverein des Deutschen
Buchhandels).
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/
2007_02_04_fosblogarchive.html#117104723940073184
* The Kauffman Foundation launched the iBridge Network, an OA portal of
licensable discoveries designed to promote tech transfer.
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/
2007_01_28_fosblogarchive.html#117054344385968585
* The US National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) proposed
raising its reproduction fees.
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/
2007_02_25_fosblogarchive.html#117258974043430064
* SPARC Europe solicited nominations for the Second Award for
Outstanding Achievements in Scholarly Communications. (The nomination
period opened and closed in February.)
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/
2007_02_11_fosblogarchive.html#117131567574525107
* BioMed Central announced the winners of its first open access
research awards.
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/
2007_02_04_fosblogarchive.html#117094916847669765
* A group of writers released version 1.0 of their definition of "free
cultural works".
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/
2007_02_11_fosblogarchive.html#117146584116376938
* ARL published an Issue Brief on Wiley's acquisition of Blackwell.
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/
2007_02_25_fosblogarchive.html#117258817047524530
* The OA Marxist Internet Archive reported that China might be
attacking the site and forcing it to stop providing OA to Marxist texts
in Chinese.
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/
2007_02_04_fosblogarchive.html#117069272110063752
* The Association of Public Television Stations and the Library of
Congress launched the American Archive project to digitize and offer OA
to American public TV programming.
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/
2007_02_25_fosblogarchive.html#117259451437101175
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Erratum
In my "Twelve reminders about FRPAA" in the last issue I mistakenly
said that the current term of copyright in the US is the author's life
plus 50 years. In fact it is the author's life plus 70 years --as I
well knew, since I criticized the extension to 70 years again and again
during the time when the Supreme Court was reviewing its
constitutionality. Apologies for the slip.
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Coming later this month
* Notable conferences in March
Open Access: Vom Prinzip zur Umsetzung (sponsored by the Schweizerische
Akademie der Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften)
http://www.assh.ch/dt/index.asp?
seite=detailTermine.asp&pag=start&id=814&
Bern, March 1, 2007
Ohio Digital Commons for Education (ODCE) 2007 Conference
http://www.oln.org/conferences/ODCE2007/ODCE2007.php
Columbus, Ohio, March 4-6, 2007
Emerging Libraries: How Knowledge Will Be Accessed, Discovered, and
Disseminated in the Age of Digital Information (Rice University's 2007
De Lange Conference) (OA is among the topics)
http://www.delange.rice.edu/conferenceVI.cfm
Houston, March 5-7, 2007.
JISC Conference 2007 (OA is among the topics)
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/conference2007
Birmingham, March 13, 2007
Building Institutional Repositories with DSpace (OA is among the topics)
http://www.oa-rep.de/index.php?id=89
Kassel, March 14-15, 2007
Open Knowledge 1.0 (sponsored by the Open Knowledge Foundation) (OA is
among the topics)
http://www.okfn.org/okforums/okcon/
London, March 17, 2007
Open Access: the Sea Change in Scholarly Publishing (a forum with John
Willinsky)
http://www.library.ualberta.ca/oaforum/
Edmonton, March 20, 2007
American Chemical Society Spring 2007 Meeting (OA is among the topics)
http://www.chemistry.org/portal/a/c/s/1/acsdisplay.html?
DOC=meetings%5cchicago2007%5chome.html
Chicago, March 25-29, 2007
--Symposium on Communicating Chemistry, March 27-28
http://usefulchem.blogspot.com/2006/12/communicating-chemistry-at-
acs.html
* Other OA-related conferences
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/conf.htm
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Housekeeping
* I've added 15 new conferences to my conference page since the last
issue. In the next few days I'll delete the second asterisk marking
them and the new entries will blend into the rest of the collection.
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/conf.htm
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