The AIDS Vaccine Advocacy Coalition (AVAC) has published a report, AIDS Vaccines at the Crossroads, which includes policy recommendations for making progress toward an AIDS vaccine. One recommendation: "Provide open public access to research results including peer-reviewed articles of work funded by taxpayer dollars." Here's a longer excerpt from p. 41, after summarizing the NIH and Wellcome Trust policies:
AVAC calls on all NIH and other publicly-funded vaccine scientists to lead by example and post manuscript or publication materials with the government as soon as possible. Intramural researchers within NIH especially have few constraints on their ability to implement the policy to the benefit of community and trial participants. Other foundations could follow The Wellcome Trust lead. For further information go to [the Alliance for Taxpayer Access].
(Thanks to Rick Johnson.)
Posted by
Peter Suber at 9/08/2005 03:51:00 PM.
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.
