The ALPSP has written a response to the report of the UK House of Commons Science and Technology Committee on STM publishing and open access. (The response is undated but was released c. October 5.) Excerpts:
The Committee's recommendations on self-archiving in institutional repositories are, in fact, in line with the policies of a growing number of publishers, as our own and other studies have shown. However, discussions will be needed about possible time delays post-publication (6 months was suggested by the US Appropriations Committee in its recommendations for research funded by the National Institutes of Health), and about what version of the article the author should be permitted to deposit.
The Committee is realistic enough to recognise that much still needs to be learned about the effects, financial and non-financial, of 'author-pays' publication in Open Access journals, and we support its call for further research. ALPSP has already embarked on just such a large-scale study as the Committee suggests, jointly funded with the American Association for the Advancement of Science and HighWire Press, and we would be happy to share our information with the Committee.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 10/10/2004 08:46:00 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.
