Paula Park, NIH unveils open access draft, The Scientist, September 8, 2004. Excerpt: "Papers based on NIH-funded research would be freely available 6 months after their publication, according to a draft National Institutes of Health (NIH) policy released Friday (September 3) in an apparent compromise with journal publishers....Originally, a House Appropriations Committee report suggested that the NIH require the immediate public release of papers for which the agency pays publication costs, as well as requiring that papers on other NIH-sponsored research be released 6 months after publication. But during a July meeting with NIH director Elias Zerhouni, publishers complained that the immediate release of papers would dramatically affect their businesses. Immediate release was not included in the NIH draft....The compromise satisfied neither publishers nor open-access advocates, however. 'The policy is admirable and a step in the right direction, but it's not open access,' said Harold Varmus, chairman, Public Library of Science, and president, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. 'The ultimate goal is true open access, with publications available at the time they are issued,' Varmus told The Scientist."
Posted by
Peter Suber at 9/08/2004 11:50:00 AM.
The open access movement:
Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature
on the internet. Making it available free of charge and
free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
Removing the barriers to serious research.
I recommend the OA tracking project (OATP) as the best way to stay on top of new OA developments. You can read the OATP feed on a blog-like web page or subscribe to it by RSS, email, or Twitter. You can also help build the feed by tagging new developments you encounter.
