[BOAI] Re: Open Access Week 2010 declared for October 18 to 24--Researchers challenged to demonstrate the impact ofOpenAccess on research and scholarship

Mon May 3 22:56:41 BST 2010

This is too large a subject to debate here -- and to no avail. For your
information its not the 'copyright' that has any force -- its the
'Publisher' who wants to control distribution. The Publisher doesn't give a
damn about one copy being sent he just doesn't want hundreds going out
without his piece of the pie.

Best,

Allen

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Salager-Meyer
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24--Researchers challenged to demonstrate the impact ofOpenAccess on
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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

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Sent: Friday, April 30, 2010 4:05 PM
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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 <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

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Subject: [BOAI] Re: Open Access Week 2010 declared for October 18 to 24
--Researchers challenged to demonstrate the impact of OpenAccess on research
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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

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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, 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.

##

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.

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Jennifer McLennan
Director of Programs & Operations
SPARC
jennifer at arl.org
(202) 296-2296 x121
Fax: (202) 872-0884
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SPARC 2010 Digital Repositories Meeting
November 8 & 9 - Baltimore, MD
http://www.arl.org/sparc/media/09-0223.shtml
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Open Access Week 2010
October 18 - 24. Everywhere.
http://www.openaccessweek.org
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 <http://www.arl.org/sparc> 

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