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- Springer launches interdisciplinary open access journal SpringerPlus
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| Rockefeller University Press director opposes RWAOptions Posted: 13 Jan 2012 05:17 PM PST groups.google.com An open letter from Mike Rossner, Executive Director of Rockefeller University Press, to Rep. Carolyn Maloney, a co-sponsor of the Research Works Act. Excerpt: "I am contacting you as a publisher and as your constituent in the 14th Congressional District of New York to express my strong opposition to the Research Works Act (H.R. 3699), which you and Representative Issa introduced into the House on December 16, 2011. I want to state emphatically that I support the NIH Public Access Policy and think it should be expanded to other federal funding agencies. All publishers of biomedical research understand several truths: 1) that their content is generated in large part through federally funded research, 2) that the peer review process is carried out in large part by federally funded individuals, and 3) that a significant portion of their subscription revenue is obtained from government funded institutions....At The Rockefeller University Press, we have released the content of our three journals to the public six months after publication since January, 2001, and our subscription revenues have grown since then. All of the content in our journals is released to the public, regardless of funding source. We are not aware of any data indicating that subscription revenues of biomedical research journal publishers have been directly and negatively affected by the NIH mandate. Enacting a law that prohibits federal funding agencies from mandating public access to the results of the research they fund will deprive the public of important information that is rightly theirs. Although this Act has been supported by the Association of American Publishers (AAP), it is vital that members of Congress know that not all members of this Association agree with their position. The Rockefeller University Press is a member of the AAP, but we strongly oppose H.R. 3699." |
| "Science" mentions Bill Blocking NIH Public Access Policy Posted: 13 Jan 2012 05:11 PM PST |
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| Register & Read (Coming soon!) | JSTOR Posted: 13 Jan 2012 12:39 PM PST about.jstor.org "Register & Read Beta is a new, experimental program to offer free, read-online access to individual scholars and researchers who register for a MyJSTOR account. Register & Read follows the release of the Early Journal Content as the next step in our efforts to find sustainable ways to extend access to JSTOR, specifically to those not affiliated with participating institutions....At launch, Register & Read will include approximately 70 journals from more than 30 publishers, a subset of the content in JSTOR. This includes content from the first volume and issue published for these journals through a recent year (generally 3-5 years ago). We plan to add more titles at a later date....Register & Read is a beta program, and we expect to adjust aspects of the program as needed. This may include both functionality and the available content...." |
| Research Archive JStor Moves Toward Open Access - Technology Review Posted: 13 Jan 2012 12:34 PM PST www.technologyreview.com "An organization that maintains a huge database of academic research plans to soon let the public view some of the trove of information for free—a big boost for the idea of "open access" to the world's knowledge. As part of its new program, which is expected to enter beta mode in the coming weeks, the JStor service will let anyone view articles from 70 journals after registering with the website. The reader then can view up to three documents at a time in a "frame" on the site. There are some limitations. For one thing, the free access won't let readers download or print the articles; those privileges will still be reserved for people who buy the articles or are affiliated with schools and libraries that pay for JStor subscriptions. Second, this beta program includes just a small portion of the 1,400 academic journals in JStor's online database. However, if it works out, JStor says, it could expand the program to most or nearly all of the database....JStor...began giving away access in Africa in 2006, and in other poor parts of the world in 2008. Last summer it made old, out-of-copyright articles available for free. But none of those efforts was as far-reaching as the new program, which JStor calls "Register & Read." ...JStor cautions that Register & Read will be an experiment. If it doesn't work for the scholarly societies and other organizations that own the content that JStor makes available online, Register & Read might have to be scaled back or modified, JStor's leaders say. But Guthrie told TR that overall, JStor and academic publishers had reached a point where it was wise to try creative methods of enabling access. A scholarly society might now lose out on $30 sales of journal articles but find that widening the exposure to those articles increases their dues-paying memberships. "We all have to disrupt ourselves," he said." |
| Our scientific societies need to quit the Association of American Publishers Posted: 13 Jan 2012 12:26 PM PST it is NOT junk, (07 Jan 2012) "By coming out in favor of the odious Research Works Act, which would end the NIH’s Public Access Policy, the American Association of Publishers has proven, once again, that it is eager to place its narrow interests ahead of those of the scientific community and public. It should come as now surprise that publishing behemoths like Elsevier would back such a reactionary piece of legislation. But it should infuriate members of the scientific community to know that most of their scientific societies are backing this repeal effort through their membership in the AAP....I urge all of my colleagues to join me in calling for the societies that represent our interests to denounce the Research Works Act (HR-3699) and to suspend or withdraw their support for the AAP until it recognizes the importants of public access to scientific research and immediately ceases to oppose efforts to provide it....Their actions on this matter are egregious and they need to know we disapprove...." |
| Bill Blocking NIH Public Access Policy Draws Fire Posted: 13 Jan 2012 12:19 PM PST news.sciencemag.org "[Mike Eisen] notes that Association of American Publishers (AAP) has praised the bill, arguing that publishers should be compensated for adding value to papers. (NIH officials have said previously that because the policy allows for a delay of up to 12 months before a paper is posted, publishers' investments are protected.) Eisen, however, says most of that value comes from volunteer peer-reviewers whose salaries are largely paid by taxpayers. Congress has considered proposals in the past that would block the NIH policy; others would expand it to more agencies and shorten the delay to 6 months. A spokesperson for the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, which Issa chairs and to which bill has been referred, said it has no immediate plans to mark up the bill. One new twist is a proposal from Eisen that scientists ask societies to which they belong to drop their membership in AAP. Howard Garrison of the umbrella group Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB) in Bethesda, Maryland, which is among the groups Eisen lists, told ScienceInsider that the bill, which has led to "questions" from some society members, came as a surprise...." |
| Stop Making Sense (Scholarly Publishing Edition) Posted: 13 Jan 2012 11:29 AM PST ACRLog, (06 Jan 2012) "Every time the commercial publishers come out in support of restricting access to scholarly research it’s another opportunity to widen the open access conversation...." |
| CALL TO ACTION: Oppose H.R. 3699, a Bill to Block Public Access to Publicly Funded Research Posted: 13 Jan 2012 11:27 AM PST Public Policy Connections, (12 Jan 2012) "The Special Libraries Association strongly supports the NIH’s popular Public Access Policy. This new bill would essentially reverse the NIH’s Public Access Policy and prevent other Federal agencies from developing similar policies to provide timely public access to taxpayer-funded research...." |
| Springer launches interdisciplinary open access journal SpringerPlus Posted: 13 Jan 2012 11:24 AM PST groups.google.com "Springer’s new open access journal SpringerPlus is a further addition to the publishing company’s SpringerOpen portfolio, underlining its flexible publication strategy. It is the publisher’s first open access journal with a broad interdisciplinary approach....A transparent and fast publication process is the hallmark of SpringerPlus....The only thing that counts is the high quality of research described.... Like all other SpringerOpen journals, SpringerPlus will be published under the Creative Commons Attribution License....Authors will be assessed a standard open access fee...." |
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