[BOAI] Re: [sparc-oaforum] Call to action: 2011 White House RFI on public access (deadline Jan. 2)

[Daniel Mietchen]

Dear all,

are there any plans to collaborate on the submissions?

The response of the Wikimedia Foundation shall be drafted in public at
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Committee/Areas_of_interest/Open-access_policy/Request_for_Information_on_Public_Access_to_Digital_Data_and_Scientific_Publications
,
and anyone is invited to join (or leave) the drafting at any time and
to include any portion of any version of this draft in their
submission.

See you there?

Daniel

-- 
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedian_in_Residence_on_Open_Science



On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 10:22 PM, Jennifer McLennan <jennifer at arl.org> wrote:
> Please post and share widely. Also online
> at http://www.taxpayeraccess.org/action/action_access/11-1117.shtml.
> The opportunity
> As part of the process of fulfilling Section 103 of the 2010 America
> COMPETES Act, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP)
> has issued a Request for Information (RFI), asking individuals and
> organizations to provide recommendations on approaches for broad public
> access and long-term stewardship to peer-reviewed scholarly publications
> that result from federally funded scientific research. The RFI poses eight
> multi-part questions.
> The full text of the RFI may be found at:
> http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-2011-11-04/html/2011-28623.htm
> NOTE: A second RFI has also been issued on the topic of public access to
> digital data. SPARC/ATA will coordinate with allied organizations including
> ARL and CNI to formulate a response.
> Who should respond?
> It is urgent that as many individuals and organizations as possible – at all
> levels – respond.
> For reference, the RFI specifically calls for comments from “non-Federal
> stakeholders, including the public, universities, nonprofit and for-profit
> publishers, libraries, federally funded and non-federally funded research
> scientists, and other organizations and institutions with a stake in
> long-term preservation and access to the results of federally funded
> research.”
> If you can’t answer all of the questions, answer as many as possible – and
> respond to questions as directly as possible.
> Organizations beyond the U.S., with experience with open-access policies,
> are also invited to contribute.
> How the results will be used
> The input provided through this RFI will inform the National Science and
> Technology Council’s Task Force on Public Access to Scholarly Publications,
> convened by OSTP.
> OSTP will issue a report to Congress describing:
> 1. Priorities for the development of agency policies for ensuring broad
> public access to the results of federally funded, unclassified research;
> 2. The status of agency policies for public access to publications resulting
> from federally funded research;
> 3. Public input collected.
> Taxpayers paid for the research. We deserve to be able to access the
> results.
> The main point to emphasize is that taxpayers are entitled to access the
> results of the research our tax dollars fund. Taxpayers should be allowed to
> immediately access and fully reuse the results of publicly funded research.
> To discuss talking points in further detail, don’t hesitate to contact us.
> How to respond
> The deadline for submissions is January 2, 2012. Submissions should be sent
> via email to publicaccess at ostp.gov. Please note: OSTP will publicly post all
> submissions after the deadline (along with names of submitters and their
> institutions) so please make sure not to include any confidential or
> proprietary information in your submission. Attachments may be included.
> As ever, thanks for your commitment to public access and the advancement of
> these crucial policies.
> If you have any questions or comments, don’t hesitate to contact:
> Heather Joseph
> Executive Director, SPARC and spokesperson for the Alliance for Taxpayer
> Access
> heather [at] arl [dot] org
> Jennifer McLennan
> Director of Programs and Operations, SPARC & the Alliance for Taxpayer
> Access
> jennifer [at] arl [dot] org
>
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> SPARC
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> Fax: (202) 872-0884
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