[BOAI] Re: Open Access Week 2010 declared for October 18 to 24--Researchers challenged to demonstrate the impact ofOpenAccess on research and scholarship
Françoise Salager-Meyer
francoise.sm at gmail.com
Sat May 1 15:13:39 BST 2010
>Dear Allen,
Indeed, one can send one's papers out to anyone
who's asking for a copy unless the copyright
forbids.
But I'd like to insist upon the fact that the
open access movement is perhaps not such a "big
deal" for ultra developed/industrialized
countries who have well resourced libraries
(hence free access to scientific and other
information), grants to conduct research in
whichever field/discipline, but it is certainly a
way to redress the current imbalance and
inequalities that exist in today's scientific
communication, i.e., it is a must for developing
countries, as I argued in a previous mail.
Fortunately, the academic world is slowly but
surely, it seems, undertanding the situation.
Proof of this are the OA mandates of quite a few
first world universities that have understood
that OA and OA institutional repositories are the
only ways to make knowledge accessible to the
great majority of scholars worldwide and not to a
restricted, privileged few.
Françoise Salager-Meyer
Universidad de Los Andes. Venezuela.
*****
>Unsigned:
>Are you an attorney? Under the Fair Use and
>other provisions of the US Copyright law I can
>send anything I want for use by students.
>Furthermore my publishers have given me
>permission to send copies of scholarly works
>whenever I have asked. I am going to attach one
>but do not know if the Moderator will allow it.
>This whole agony over open access is just a
>self-aggrandizing agenda of a few people. Why
>MIT with whom I am affiliated, among others,
> makes so much in science and technology
>available as to satisfy most inquisitors without
>any prompting by open access organizations.
>Furthermore most of the scholarly work of any
>merit is kept secret in order to obtain a
>competitive advantage either for tenure or other
>financial gain.
>
>Good luck,
>
>
>
>Allen
>
>
>
>From: boai-forum-bounces at ecs.soton.ac.uk
>[mailto:boai-forum-bounces at ecs.soton.ac.uk] On
>Behalf Of Carolina Rossini
>Sent: Friday, April 30, 2010 4:05 PM
>To: boai-forum at ecs.soton.ac.uk
>Subject: [BOAI] Re: Open Access Week 2010
>declared for October 18 to 24--Researchers
>challenged to demonstrate the impact
>ofOpenAccess on research and scholarship
>
>That is against copyright and library
>rules....plus what you do fosters a club culture
>that does not solve the issue of lack of access
>from developing countries.
>
>On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 8:25 AM, Allen Kleiman
><<mailto:allenk at panix.com>allenk at panix.com>
>wrote:
>
>What I try to do, upon request, is to e-mail
>any of my papers to other countries and any
>others I have available from my library.Of
>course what you are describing is not entirely
>or even partly due to the open access project --
>it is because your libraries are not funded
>properly. I am not qualified to discuss that
>problem however.
>
>Allen
>
>
>
>
>
>From:
><mailto:boai-forum-bounces at ecs.soton.ac.uk>boai-forum-bounces at ecs.soton.ac.uk
>[mailto:<mailto:boai-forum-bounces at ecs.soton.ac.uk>boai-forum-bounces at ecs.soton.ac.uk]
>On Behalf Of Françoise Salager-Meyer
>Sent: Thursday, April 29, 2010 9:50 AM
>To: <mailto:boai-forum at ecs.soton.ac.uk>boai-forum at ecs.soton.ac.uk
>Subject: [BOAI] Re: Open Access Week 2010
>declared for October 18 to 24 --Researchers
>challenged to demonstrate the impact of
>OpenAccess on research and scholarship
>Importance: High
>
>>Not so in developing countries, Mr. Kleiman,
>>where it is extremely difficult to have access
>>to the materials we need to conduct our
>>research because our libraries are almost empty
>>(only subscribe to a few journals and not the
>>top-notch ones ... and no books).
>>
>Françoise Salager-Meyer
>(Universidad de Los Andes. Mérida. Venezuela)
>
>********
>
>
>
>
>>Most research and scholarly publications are
>>read by 'insiders' who for the most part have
>>open access through libraries and Fair Use. I
>>am a researcher and scholar and have access to
>>anything published in the world. So what's the
>>point?
>
>
>
>Second your practice of moderating e-mails is
>contrary to your stated goal of open access.
>
>
>
>Allen Kleiman
>
>
>
>
>
>From:
><mailto:boai-forum-bounces at ecs.soton.ac.uk>boai-forum-bounces at ecs.soton.ac.uk
>[mailto:<mailto:boai-forum-bounces at ecs.soton.ac.uk>boai-forum-bounces at ecs.soton.ac.uk]
>On Behalf Of Iryna Kuchma
>Sent: Thursday, April 29, 2010 3:22 AM
>To: boai-forum
>Subject: [BOAI] Open Access Week 2010 declared
>for October 18 to 24 --Researchers challenged to
>demonstrate the impact of OpenAccess on research
>and scholarship
>
>[Forwarded message from Jennifer McLennan]
>
>
>FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
>April 28, 2010
>
>For more information, contact:
>Jennifer McLennan
>(202) 296-2296 ext. 121
>jennifer [at] arl [dot] org
>
>Open Access Week 2010 declared for October 18 to 24
>Researchers challenged to demonstrate the impact
>of Open Access on research and scholarship
>
>(Washington, DC) Open Access Week, the global
>event to promote free, immediate, online access
>to research now entering its fourth year, has
>been declared for October 18 to 24, 2010. Open
>Access Week is an opportunity for the worldwide
>academic and research community to continue to
>learn about the potential benefits of Open
>Access (OA), to share what they've learned with
>colleagues, and to inspire wider participation
>in helping to make Open Access a new norm in
>scholarship and research.
>
>"Open Access Week has evolved from a one-day
>student event on a dozen campuses to a truly
>global phenomenon," said Jennifer McLennan, Open
>Access Week program director at SPARC (the
>Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources
>Coalition). "We've seen participation expand to
>include hundreds of university and college
>campuses, research institutes, funding agencies,
>libraries, and think tanks - all connecting the
>fast-growing global momentum toward openness
>with the advancement of policy changes on the
>local level." In 2009, Open Access Week spurred
>the announcement of actions including expanded
>open-access publication funds, the adoption of
>institution-wide open-access policies, and the
>release of new reports on the societal and
>economic benefits of OA.
>
>This year's OA Week preparations kick off with a
>challenge to researchers from Dr. Philip E.
>Bourne, Professor of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical
>Sciences at the University of California San
>Diego and Founding Editor-in-Chief of PLoS
>Computational Biology. In a video posted to the
>OA Week Web site, Bourne calls upon scholars to
>think beyond free and ready access to the
>literature - made possible by Open Access - and
>consider how technology may be deployed to
>advance research, to truly mine the increasing
>amount of available literature.
>
>He says, "What I think ultimately will be the
>main success of Open Access, is that you have
>the full text of the literature in an XML format
>that can be analyzed and used by computer. The
>idea that we'll be able to keep up with [the
>volume of literature being published] is just
>untenable. To actually make full use of the
>literature, we're going to require tools to help
>us." He challenges his peers in the research
>community to surface efforts like SciVee (a new
>type of learning experience that mashes up
>journal articles with rich media) and UCSD's
>BioLit (an initiative to integrate database
>identifiers and rich meta-data from open-access
>articles with biological databases) - both of
>which "would not be possible without unbridled
>and free access to the literature."
>
>
>Challenges like Dr. Bourne's, and responses to
>them - experiences and projects that demonstrate
>the power of Open Access to enable the Web and
>advance discovery - will be highlighted across
>global efforts in conjunction with the Week.
>Details may be posted or linked on the Open
>Access Week Web site by October 10, 2010.
>
>The new Open Access Week Web site, at
><http://www.openaccessweek.org>http://www.openaccessweek.org,
>details how participants across sectors - from
>research funders and producers to students and
>libraries - have taken advantage of the event to
>advance Open Access, and offers ideas for 2010.
>
>"There are a multitude of ways to participate in
>OA Week," said Alma Swan, program adviser. "It
>can be as simple as wearing a bright orange
>shirt or as complex as introducing a new OA
>policy. OA Week may also be the chance to let
>your imagination have full rein and come up with
>something ambitious, wacky, or fun."
>
>Organizations and individuals planning to
>participate or interested in more information
>about Open Access Week 2010 should register now
>on the Web site for access to regional and
>global contacts and resources.
>
>Open Access Week is organized by SPARC (the
>Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources
>Coalition), with expert guidance from an
>international panel of Open Access leaders.
>Program advisers include: Subbiah Arunachalam
>(Centre for Internet and Society, Bangalore),
>Leslie Chan (University of Toronto, Scarborough,
>OASIS), Melissa Hagemann (Open Society
>Institute), Thomas Hickerson (University of
>Calgary), Heather Joseph (SPARC), Iryna Kuchma
>(eIFL.net), Li Lin (National Science Library,
>CAS), Donna Okubo (Public Library of Science),
>Robin Peek (Open Access Directory, Simmons
>College), Carolina Rossini (Berkman Center),
>Nick Shockey (Right to Research Coalition),
>Peter Suber (Berkman Center, Earlham College,
>SPARC), Alma Swan (Key Perspectives Ltd, OASIS),
>Ikuko Tsuchide (Digital Repository Federation,
>Japan), Xiaolin Zhang (National Science Library,
>CAS).
>
>For more information, visit the Open Access Week
>Web site at
><http://www.openaccessweek.org>http://www.openaccessweek.org.
>
>##
>
>SPARC (Scholarly Publishing and Academic
>Resources Coalition), with SPARC Europe and
>SPARC Japan, is an international alliance of
>more than 800 academic and research libraries
>working to create a more open system of
>scholarly communication. SPARC's advocacy,
>educational, and publisher partnership programs
>encourage expanded dissemination of research.
>SPARC is on the Web at
><http://www.arl.org/sparc>http://www.arl.org/sparc.
>
>-------------------------------------
>Jennifer McLennan
>Director of Programs & Operations
>SPARC
><mailto:jennifer at arl.org>jennifer at arl.org
>(202) 296-2296 x121
>Fax: (202) 872-0884
>*******************************
>SPARC 2010 Digital Repositories Meeting
>November 8 & 9 - Baltimore, MD
><http://www.arl.org/sparc/media/09-0223.shtml>http://www.arl.org/sparc/media/09-0223.shtml
>*******************************
>Open Access Week 2010
>October 18 - 24. Everywhere.
><http://www.openaccessweek.org>http://www.openaccessweek.org
>*******************************
><http://www.arl.org/sparc>
>
>
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