[BOAI] Fwd: [berkmanfriends] Harvard Open Access Project Monthly Updates - 6/26/12

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From: Kenny Whitebloom <kwhitebloom at cyber.law.harvard.edu>
Date: Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 12:29 PM
Subject: [berkmanfriends] Harvard Open Access Project Monthly Updates -
6/26/12
To: Berkman Friends <berkmanfriends at eon.law.harvard.edu>

 Dear all,

I am pleased to announce the launch of a new list designed to share monthly
updates, conversations, and information about the Harvard Open Access
Project <http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/hoap/Main_Page> (HOAP). The Harvard
Open Access Project fosters the growth of open access to research, within
Harvard and beyond, using a combination of consultation, collaboration,
community-building, and direct assistance.

These updates will be publicly available for community members, partners,
and other interested parties, so feel free to share them with your
networks. The first of these HOAP monthly updates is included below. As the
project continues to evolve, we will share more updates on each of the
items listed below through the email list, project wiki, and other channels.

*To receive monthly updates about HOAP, sign up at
http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/lists/subscribe/hoap*

Please do not hesitate to be in contact with Kenny Whitebloom (
kwhitebloom at cyber.law.harvard.edu) if you have any questions about these
updates or HOAP.

Many thanks,
Kenny + The HOAP Team

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HOAP Update, Public Version - June 26, 2012

I.     Publications and Related Research

PUBLICATIONS FROM MIT PRESS
MIT Press recently published the Kindle edition of HOAP Director Peter
Suber’s newest work, Open Access, as part of their Essential Knowledge
Series. They will roll out a dozen other digital formats over the course of
the summer; a print edition is expected in mid-July. An anthology of some
of Peter’s articles on OA from the past ten years will also come out in
early 2013. Both books will themselves be OA one year after publication.

   - Peter Suber, Open Access, <http://bit.ly/ulUSDM> MIT Press
   - Peter has created a page on the HOAP wiki
<http://bit.ly/oa-book>where he will post updates to the book’s text.

DOCTORAL DISSERTATIONS
Two doctoral students, Haswira Nor Mohamad Hashim and Heather Morrison, are
currently writing dissertations on OA, for which Peter is serving as an
external examiner. Hashim is pursuing a degree from Queensland University
of Technology <http://www.qut.edu.au/> in Australia, while Morrison is
pursuing a degree from Simon Fraser University <http://www.sfu.ca/> in
British Columbia.

II.     Events and Public Policy

WHITE HOUSE PETITION
HOAP helped muster signatures for a White House petition calling for a
federal OA policy that requires “the published results of taxpayer-funded
research to be posted on the Internet in human and machine readable form.”
According to the petition site’s rules, any petition that collects 25,000
signatures in less than 30 days receives an official response from the
Obama administration; the petition reached that mark in just 14 days of its
posting. The petition was created by Access2Research, a group of Open
Access advocates that includes SPARC’s Executive Director, Heather Joseph,
and former Berkman Assistant Director, John Wilbanks. We’re awaiting the
White House response!

   - Read and sign the White House petition <http://wh.gov/6TH>

 <http://wh.gov/6TH>
WORLD BANK LAUNCHES OA POLICY
In April 2012, the World Bank announced that it will implement a new Open
Access policy<http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/000406484_20120403130112>for
its research outputs and knowledge products, effective July 1, 2012.
According to a World Bank press
release<http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/NEWS/0,,contentMDK:23164491%7EpagePK:64257043%7EpiPK:437376%7EtheSitePK:4607,00.html>,
“the new policy builds on recent efforts to increase access to information
at the World Bank and to make its research as widely available as
possible...the Bank launched [today] a new Open Knowledge
Repository<http://openknowledge.worldbank.org/> and
adopted a set of Creative Commons <http://creativecommons.org/> copyright
licenses.” The policy will effectively make World Bank research freely
available online without charge or restrictions via the Open Knowledge
Repository. Peter Suber participated in a panel that discussed the World
Bank’s new OA policy and global development at the May 21, 2012 launch
event.

   - The World Bank, “Bank Publications and Research Now Easier to Access,
   Reuse <http://go.worldbank.org/GWQP2I5FD0>”
   - The World Bank, “World Bank Open Access Policy for Formal
Publications<http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2012/04/16200740/world-bank-open-access-policy-formal-publications>
   ”
   - The World Bank, “What the World Bank’s Open Access Policy Means for
   Development<http://live.worldbank.org/bank-open-access-policy-development-liveblog>”
   (video)

ABA AND HLS CO-SPONSOR PANEL ON COPYRIGHT AND FEDERALLY FUNDED RESEARCH
In an ABA and HLS co-sponsored panel moderated by Jonathan Hulbert,
University Attorney at Harvard and Vice-Chair of the Committee on
University Intellectual Property Law, Peter Suber, Simon Franzini, a
Harvard Law School Cyberlaw Clinic student, and Mark Seely, Elsevier
General Counsel, discussed copyright aspects of federal OA policy. The
panel discussion, “Public Access to Federally Funded Research: Copyright
and Other Issues<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doegjamgY4U&feature=g-all-u>,”
was recorded and recently posted online. Notably, Mark Seely conceded that
the National Institute of Health OA mandate, and other similar OA policies,
are lawful (see minute 8 of the recording; the question was picked up again
for clarification and further discussion at minutes 16 and 18).

   - ABA and HLS, “Public Access to Federally Funded Research: Copyright
   and Other Issues<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doegjamgY4U&feature=g-all-u>”
   (video)

BUDAPEST OPEN ACCESS INITIATIVE
For the ten year anniversary of its landmark convening in 2002, the
Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI) reconvened this February, with plans
to release a statement of recommendations for the next ten years. Peter
Suber was the principal drafter of the BOAI statement ten years ago and is
convening the effort to draft a new statement. In a February 2012 blog
post, Melissa Hagemann of the Open Society Foundations announced and
outlined the principles that would underlie the reconvening:

 We plan to develop a set of recommendations which will help guide the
movement over the next ten years. We will be exploring issues of
sustainability, what we can do to further support OA in developing and
transition countries, and what implications OA has for measuring the impact
of research, and encouraging its reuse. But just like the first meeting in
Budapest, we will be keeping the agenda as open as possible. We want to
encourage the creative thinking that led to the conception of Open Access
in the first place, thinking that has inspired a global movement which
cannot now be claimed by any single institution, but is a testament to the
power of a good idea to spread across institutional boundaries and
disciplines.

   - Read the original BOAI
statements<http://www.soros.org/openaccess/read>(2002)
   - Melissa Hagemann, “Ten Years On, Researchers Embrace Open
Access<http://archive.blog.soros.org/2012/02/ten-years-on-researchers-embrace-open-access/>
   ”

III.     Work and Consultation with other Institutions

“A GUIDE TO BEST PRACTICES FOR UNIVERSITY OPEN ACCESS POLICIES”
HOAP Principals Peter Suber and Stuart Shieber, in collaboration with the
Office of Scholarly Communication, are currently drafting A Guide to Best
Practices for University Open Access Policies. When the draft is ready, the
team will share it with major partner institutions this summer, soliciting
feedback, contributions, and endorsements. They hope to release the first
public version in the fall.

IV.     Technical Developments

TAGTEAM 1.0
HOAP and the Harvard Library Lab <http://osc.hul.harvard.edu/liblab>, led
by Peter and Dan Collis-Puro, have soft launched their open source social
tagging tool, TagTeam 1.0; an official launch is coming soon. On his
blog<http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/djcp/2012/03/tagteam-close-to-1-0/>,
Dan describes TagTeam as “an RSS/Atom/RDF aggregator that allows
administrators to remix and republish feeds on multiple levels...it also
allows for the filtering of tags – additions, substitutions, and removals
in a flexible ‘tiered’ filtering system.” Peter will use TagTeam to enhance
the Open Access Tracking
Project<http://oad.simmons.edu/oadwiki/OA_tracking_project>(OATP) as a
way to alert the OA community of new developments and to
organize knowledge of the field. Anticipating wide use beyond the OA
community, Dan and Peter will continue work on TagTeam 2.0 over the summer
and into the future. TagTeam was funded by the Library Lab, conceived by
Peter, and coded by Dan at the Berkman Center.

   - Read more about TagTeam 1.0 <http://hvrd.me/uszer7>

 <http://hvrd.me/uszer7>
 <http://hvrd.me/uszer7>
V.     Ongoing Work

FEDERAL RESEARCH PUBLIC ACCESS ACT
HOAP continues to work with allies, especially SPARC and the ATA, on
strategies to pass the Federal Research Public Access Act (FRPAA), a bill
which would require free online public access to a very large portion of
publicly-funded research in the United States.

   - For extensive notes on FRPAA, see the HOAP wiki<http://bit.ly/hoap-frpaa>

 <http://bit.ly/hoap-frpaa>
SOCIETY PUBLISHERS & OA JOURNALS
Peter and Caroline Sutton have been maintaining an OA spreadsheet that
lists over 600 OA journals published by scholarly societies from across the
globe. The spreadsheet is openly editable.

   - Society Publishers with Open Access Journals<http://bit.ly/oaj-society>

 <http://bit.ly/oaj-society>
OPEN ACCESS TRACKING PROJECT
HOAP continued to build and manage the Open Access Tracking
Project<http://oad.simmons.edu/oadwiki/OA_tracking_project>(OATP),
soon to be enhanced by the transition from Connotea to TagTeam.

OPEN ACCESS DIRECTORY
Peter and HOAP research assistants Emily Kilcer and Andrea Bernard
continued to update and expand the Open Access
Directory<http://oad.simmons.edu/oadwiki/Main_Page>(OAD).

VI.     Related Resources

   - TagTeam 1.0 <http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/gsoc/TagTeam> (website
   coming soon!)
   - SPARC Open Access Newsletter, issue
#164<http://www.earlham.edu/%7Epeters/fos/newsletter/06-02-12.htm>(6/2/12)
   - HOAP Wiki <http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/hoap/Main_Page>
   - Open Access Directory <http://oad.simmons.edu>
   - Open Access Tracking
Project<http://oad.simmons.edu/oadwiki/OA_tracking_project>

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