[BOAI] OA research and data as humanitarian assistance to Japan

[Peter Suber]

* REQUEST *

Do you know any initiatives offering free online access to research or data
as humanitarian assistance to Japan?  If so, please post details to the
SPARC Open Access Forum (SOAF).  The initiatives may be gold, green, gratis,
libre, partial, temporary, or any variation on the theme.
--SOAF message archive
https://mx2.arl.org/Lists/SPARC-OAForum/List.html
--SOAF subscription info
http://www.arl.org/sparc/publications/soan#forum

Or send the details to me and I'll forward them to SOAF.  To save time, I'll
assume I have permission to forward messages on this topic unless the
senders tell me otherwise.

The important thing is to collect this info in a public place where people
can easily find it, and to do so without delay.  I'll reprint the most
relevant items in the April issue of the SPARC Open Access Newsletter, but
we shouldn't wait until April to boost the visibility of these useful
projects.

I already know about the Emergency Access Initiative from the US National
Library of Medicine, the National Network of Libraries of Medicine, and the
Professional/Scholarly Publishing Division of the Association of American
Publishers.
http://nnlm.gov/mcr/bhic/2011/03/15/eai-japa/
http://eai.nlm.nih.gov/docs/captcha/test.pl

I already know about the section on the Japanese earthquake and tsunami in
ReliefWeb, the UN's OA database for humanitarian relief.
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/dbc.nsf/doc108?OpenForm&emid=EQ-2011-000028-JPN&rc=3

I already know about the *lack* of OA to data on radiation leaking from the
Japanese nuclear reactors collected by the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban
Treaty Organization.
http://blogs.nature.com/news/thegreatbeyond/2011/03/exclusive_governments_withhold.html

     Thanks,
     Peter

Peter Suber
Berkman Fellow, Harvard University
Senior Researcher, SPARC
www.earlham.edu/~peters
peter.suber at gmail.com
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