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color=#0000ff size=2>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.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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color=#0000ff size=2>Best,</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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color=#0000ff size=2>Allen</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B> boai-forum-bounces@ecs.soton.ac.uk
[mailto:boai-forum-bounces@ecs.soton.ac.uk] <B>On Behalf Of </B>Françoise
Salager-Meyer<BR><B>Sent:</B> Saturday, May 01, 2010 10:14 AM<BR><B>To:</B>
boai-forum@ecs.soton.ac.uk<BR><B>Subject:</B> [BOAI] Re: Open Access Week 2010
declared for October 18 to 24--Researchers challenged to demonstrate the impact
ofOpenAccess on research and scholarship<BR><B>Importance:</B>
High<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
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size=-1>Dear Allen,</FONT></BLOCKQUOTE>
<DIV>Indeed, one can send one's papers out to anyone who's asking for a copy
unless the copyright forbids.</DIV>
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<DIV>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.</DIV>
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<DIV>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.</DIV>
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<DIV>Françoise Salager-Meyer</DIV>
<DIV>Universidad de Los Andes. Venezuela.</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>
<DIV>*****</DIV>
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size=-1>Unsigned:</FONT></BLOCKQUOTE>
<BLOCKQUOTE cite="" type="cite"><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=-1>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.</FONT></BLOCKQUOTE>
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<BLOCKQUOTE cite="" type="cite"><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=-1>Good
luck,</FONT></BLOCKQUOTE>
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boai-forum-bounces@ecs.soton.ac.uk
[mailto:boai-forum-bounces@ecs.soton.ac.uk]<B> On Behalf Of</B> Carolina
Rossini<BR><B>Sent:</B> Friday, April 30, 2010 4:05 PM<BR><B>To:</B>
boai-forum@ecs.soton.ac.uk<BR><B>Subject:</B> [BOAI] Re: Open Access Week 2010
declared for October 18 to 24--Researchers challenged to demonstrate the
impact ofOpenAccess on research and scholarship</FONT><BR></BLOCKQUOTE>
<BLOCKQUOTE cite="" type="cite">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.<BR></BLOCKQUOTE>
<BLOCKQUOTE cite="" type="cite">On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 8:25 AM, Allen Kleiman
<<A href="mailto:allenk@panix.com">allenk@panix.com</A>> wrote:<BR>
<BLOCKQUOTE><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=-1>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.</FONT></BLOCKQUOTE>
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<BLOCKQUOTE><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=-1>Allen</FONT></BLOCKQUOTE>
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<BLOCKQUOTE><FONT face=Tahoma size=-1><B>From:</B></FONT> <A
href="mailto:boai-forum-bounces@ecs.soton.ac.uk"><FONT face=Tahoma
size=-1>boai-forum-bounces@ecs.soton.ac.uk</FONT></A><FONT face=Tahoma
size=-1> [mailto:</FONT><A
href="mailto:boai-forum-bounces@ecs.soton.ac.uk"><FONT face=Tahoma
size=-1>boai-forum-bounces@ecs.soton.ac.uk</FONT></A><FONT face=Tahoma
size=-1>]<B> On Behalf Of</B> Françoise Salager-Meyer<BR><B>Sent:</B>
Thursday, April 29, 2010 9:50 AM<BR><B>To:</B></FONT> <A
href="mailto:boai-forum@ecs.soton.ac.uk"><FONT face=Tahoma
size=-1>boai-forum@ecs.soton.ac.uk</FONT></A><FONT face=Tahoma
size=-1><BR><B>Subject:</B> [BOAI] Re: Open Access Week 2010 declared for
October 18 to 24 --Researchers challenged to demonstrate the impact of
OpenAccess on research and scholarship<BR><B>Importance:</B> High</FONT><BR>
<BLOCKQUOTE cite="" type="cite"><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=-1>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).</FONT><BR></BLOCKQUOTE></BLOCKQUOTE>
<BLOCKQUOTE><FONT color=#0000ff>Françoise Salager-Meyer</FONT></BLOCKQUOTE>
<BLOCKQUOTE><FONT color=#0000ff>(Universidad de Los Andes. Mérida.
Venezuela)</FONT></BLOCKQUOTE>
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<BLOCKQUOTE cite="" type="cite"><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=-1>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?</FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></BLOCKQUOTE>
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<BLOCKQUOTE><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=-1>Second your practice of
moderating e-mails is contrary to your stated goal of open
access.</FONT><BR></BLOCKQUOTE>
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<BLOCKQUOTE><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=-1>Allen
Kleiman</FONT><BR></BLOCKQUOTE>
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<BLOCKQUOTE><FONT face=Tahoma size=-1><B>From:</B></FONT> <A
href="mailto:boai-forum-bounces@ecs.soton.ac.uk"><FONT face=Tahoma
size=-1>boai-forum-bounces@ecs.soton.ac.uk</FONT></A><FONT face=Tahoma
size=-1> [mailto:</FONT><A
href="mailto:boai-forum-bounces@ecs.soton.ac.uk"><FONT face=Tahoma
size=-1>boai-forum-bounces@ecs.soton.ac.uk</FONT></A><FONT face=Tahoma
size=-1>]<B> On Behalf Of</B> Iryna Kuchma<BR><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, April
29, 2010 3:22 AM<BR><B>To:</B> boai-forum<BR><B>Subject:</B> [BOAI] Open
Access Week 2010 declared for October 18 to 24 --Researchers challenged to
demonstrate the impact of OpenAccess on research and
scholarship</FONT><BR></BLOCKQUOTE>
<BLOCKQUOTE>[Forwarded message from<B> Jennifer
McLennan</B>]<BR></BLOCKQUOTE>
<BLOCKQUOTE><BR>FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE<BR>April 28, 2010<BR><BR>For more
information, contact:<BR>Jennifer McLennan<BR>(202) 296-2296 ext.
121<BR>jennifer [at] arl [dot] org<BR><BR>Open Access Week 2010 declared
for October 18 to 24<BR>Researchers challenged to demonstrate the impact
of Open Access on research and scholarship<BR><BR>(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.<BR><BR>"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.<BR><BR>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.<BR><BR>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."<BR></BLOCKQUOTE>
<BLOCKQUOTE><BR>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.<BR><BR>The new Open
Access Week Web site, at <A
href="http://www.openaccessweek.org">http://www.openaccessweek.org</A>,
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.<BR><BR>"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."</BLOCKQUOTE>
<BLOCKQUOTE><BR>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.<BR><BR>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).<BR><BR>For more information, visit the Open Access
Week Web site at <A
href="http://www.openaccessweek.org">http://www.openaccessweek.org</A>.<BR><BR>##<BR><BR>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 <A
href="http://www.arl.org/sparc">http://www.arl.org/sparc</A>.<BR><BR>-------------------------------------<BR>Jennifer
McLennan<BR>Director of Programs & Operations<BR>SPARC<BR><A
href="mailto:jennifer@arl.org">jennifer@arl.org</A><BR>(202) 296-2296
x121<BR>Fax: (202) 872-0884<BR>*******************************<BR>SPARC
2010 Digital Repositories Meeting<BR>November 8 & 9 - Baltimore,
MD<BR><A
href="http://www.arl.org/sparc/media/09-0223.shtml">http://www.arl.org/sparc/media/09-0223.shtml</A><BR>*******************************<BR>Open
Access Week 2010<BR>October 18 - 24. Everywhere.<BR><A
href="http://www.openaccessweek.org">http://www.openaccessweek.org</A><BR>*******************************<BR><A
href="http://www.arl.org/sparc"><BR></A></BLOCKQUOTE>
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