<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Dear all,</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
<br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Times Higher Education has published an article titled "French scholars say ‘oui’ to open access". Here it is. </span><a href="http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/news/french-scholars-say-oui-to-open-access/2002825.article" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/news/french-scholars-say-oui-to-open-access/2002825.article</a><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
<div><br></div><div>We have organized two days ago an open access meeting in Paris Sorbonne. The auditorium was full of scholars, journals directors, librarians. For those who can read French, a journalist has reported this public session : <a href="http://speakingofscience.docteo.net/2013/03/27/open-access-en-shs-lintendance-suivra/" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">http://speakingofscience.docteo.net/2013/03/27/open-access-en-shs-lintendance-suivra/</a> I would like to point out the 2 minutes speach of Pierre Mounier, deputy director of OpenEdition, explaining why open access is so important for him, "the last roman", because he was a latinist, considered as an endangered species. You can listen his improvised talk during the discussion : <a href="https://soundcloud.com/speaking-of-science/pierre-mounier-cleo-message-open-access" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">https://soundcloud.com/speaking-of-science/pierre-mounier-cleo-message-open-access</a> What message wants humanist give to the world? Are we the last Mohican, or have we a project for the future? Thanks, Pierre, for such sincerity and clear view of the future!</div>
<div><br>Best regards,<br>Marin Dacos<div><br><div><div><br><br><a href="http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/news/french-scholars-say-oui-to-open-access/2002825.article" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/news/french-scholars-say-oui-to-open-access/2002825.article</a><h1 style="color:rgb(48,48,48);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:3.2em;line-height:1.125;border:0px;list-style:none;margin:0px 0px 18px;padding:0px">
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28 MARCH 2013 | <span style="font-weight:bold">BY <a href="http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/paul-jump/1074.bio" rel="author" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(20,104,179);text-decoration:none">PAUL JUMP</a></span></p>
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</div><p style="border:0px;list-style:none;margin:0px 0px 16px;padding:0px;font-size:1.4em;line-height:1.428;font-family:Georgia,'Times New Roman',Times,serif">Sixty senior figures from the humanities and social sciences in France have published a statement in national newspaper <em>Le Monde</em> in support of open access.</p>
<p style="border:0px;list-style:none;margin:0px 0px 16px;padding:0px;font-size:1.4em;line-height:1.428;font-family:Georgia,'Times New Roman',Times,serif">The signatories, who include university presidents, librarians and journal editors, warn that if the humanities and social sciences were to opt out of wider moves towards open access they “would become isolated and ultimately extinct”. The statement, titled “Who Is Afraid of Open Access?”, was published on 15 March and has received more than 2,000 endorsements on a dedicated website, <a href="http://iloveopenaccess.org/" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(20,104,179);text-decoration:none">I love open access</a>.</p>
<p style="border:0px;list-style:none;margin:0px 0px 16px;padding:0px;font-size:1.4em;line-height:1.428;font-family:Georgia,'Times New Roman',Times,serif">Its publication follows a statement in February by representatives of more than 120 journals and 50 publishers - specialising in French humanities and social sciences - which expressed concern that the European Commission’s open-access policy for its Horizon 2020 funding period would stifle subscription income, leading to “the disappearance of the vast majority of journals published in French”.</p>
<p style="border:0px;list-style:none;margin:0px 0px 16px;padding:0px;font-size:1.4em;line-height:1.428;font-family:Georgia,'Times New Roman',Times,serif">The publishers’ statement added that the French government had given assurances that it did not feel in “any way bound” to adopt the maximum 12-month “green” embargo length advocated by the Commission.</p>
<p style="border:0px;list-style:none;margin:0px 0px 16px;padding:0px;font-size:1.4em;line-height:1.428;font-family:Georgia,'Times New Roman',Times,serif">The academics’ riposte in <em>Le Monde</em> describes the publishers’ fears as “largely groundless”, noting that a “thorough assessment of the sector would be required to provide a true cost-benefit analysis” of open access.</p>
<p style="border:0px;list-style:none;margin:0px 0px 16px;padding:0px;font-size:1.4em;line-height:1.428;font-family:Georgia,'Times New Roman',Times,serif">It says open access has the potential to “take knowledge out of silos” and allow it to play its “pivotal role” in the “collective growth” of society.</p>
<p style="border:0px;list-style:none;margin:0px 0px 16px;padding:0px;font-size:1.4em;line-height:1.428;font-family:Georgia,'Times New Roman',Times,serif">The statement also highlights the success of open access in Latin America, which it says demonstrates its potential to break the dominance of English-language journals, enabling a “plurality of viewpoints, modes of publication, scientific paradigms, and languages”.</p>
<p style="border:0px;list-style:none;margin:0px 0px 16px;padding:0px;font-size:1.4em;line-height:1.428;font-family:Georgia,'Times New Roman',Times,serif">To fear open access is “to commit oneself to a narrow - and, in fact, erroneous - vision of the future”, it says. “The humanities and social sciences can be at the forefront of this opening movement precisely because there is an increasing social demand for their research results.”</p>
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