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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-GB link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Correct. The interview was focussed on the OA policy of NSFC rather than the policy at CAS. The NSFC policy can be read <a href="http://www.eifl.net/system/files/201405/140515-nsfc_oa_policy_english.pdf">here.</a><br><br>You will see the policy states, "From the day this policy statement is issued, research papers generated from projects fully or partially funded by NSFC, when submitted and published in academic journals, the authors of the papers should deposit the final manuscripts, which have been peer reviewed and accepted by the journals, to the NSFC repository with an embargo period of no more than 12 months. Earlier open access should be provided if the publisher allows. If the paper is published in an open access journal or the publisher allows the deposit of the published version in PDF format, such version should be deposited into the NSFC repository and open access should be provided immediately."<br><br>However, as Prof. Yonghe Zheng points out, the NSFC repository may not go live until 2016.<br><br>When I sought clarification on this issue Prof. Zheng replied, "In the meantime, we encourage them to deposit their papers in their respective institutional repositories."<br><br>This leads me to assume that until the repository goes live the NSFC policy is one of encouragement rather than necessity.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Richard Poynder<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'> boai-forum-bounces@ecs.soton.ac.uk [mailto:boai-forum-bounces@ecs.soton.ac.uk] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Harnad, Stevan<br><b>Sent:</b> 19 June 2014 16:52<br><b>To:</b> Global Open Access List (Successor of AmSci)<br><b>Subject:</b> [BOAI] Re: The Open Access Interviews: Deputy Director General of the Bureau of Policy at the National Natural Science Foundation of China<br><b>Importance:</b> High<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Here is an important (and very welcome) correction from Eloy Rodrigues:<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>On Jun 19, 2014, at 7:47 AM, Eloy Rodrigues <eloy—sdum—uminho--pt> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><br><br><o:p></o:p></p><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=PT style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Hi Stevan,</span><span lang=PT><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=PT style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><span lang=PT><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>The CAS mandate is for immediate deposit:</span><span lang=PT><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>CAS requires its researchers and graduate students to<span class=apple-converted-space> </span></span><span lang=PT><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></blockquote><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><b><u><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>deposit an electronic version of the final, peer-reviewed manuscripts of their research articles</span></u></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>,</span><span lang=PT><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></blockquote><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>resulted from any public funded scientific research projects, </span><span lang=PT><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></blockquote><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>submitted and consequently published in academic journals</span><span lang=PT><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></blockquote><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>after the issuing of this policy, into the open access repositories</span><span lang=PT><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></blockquote><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>of their respective institutes<span class=apple-converted-space> </span><b><u>at the time the article is published</u></b>,</span><span lang=PT><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></blockquote><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>to be made publicly available within 12 months of the official data of publication.</span><span lang=PT><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><span lang=PT><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>And CAS already has a network of IRs. Xiaolin Zhang the CAS Library Director has been a very active OA and IR advocate.</span><span lang=PT><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><span lang=PT><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Best,</span><span lang=PT><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><span lang=PT><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 align=left width=463 style='width:347.4pt;border-collapse:collapse;margin-bottom:3.5pt;z-index:auto'><tr><td width=132 valign=top style='width:99.25pt;border:none;border-right:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt'><div><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:12.0pt;mso-element:frame;mso-element-frame-hspace:2.25pt;mso-element-wrap:around;mso-element-anchor-vertical:paragraph;mso-element-anchor-horizontal:column;mso-height-rule:exactly'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"NewsGotT","serif";color:#1F497D'><image001.jpg><br></span><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"NewsGotT","serif";color:#1F497D'>Serviços de Documentação</span><o:p></o:p></p></div></td><td width=331 valign=top style='width:248.15pt;padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt'><div><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:12.0pt;mso-element:frame;mso-element-frame-hspace:2.25pt;mso-element-wrap:around;mso-element-anchor-vertical:paragraph;mso-element-anchor-horizontal:column;mso-height-rule:exactly'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"NewsGotT","serif";color:#1F497D'>Eloy Rodrigues<br>Direcção<br>Campus de Gualtar, 4710 - 057 Braga - Portugal<br>Telefone +351 253 604 150; Fax +351 253 604 159<br>Campus de Azurém, 4800 058 Guimarães</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:12.0pt;mso-element:frame;mso-element-frame-hspace:2.25pt;mso-element-wrap:around;mso-element-anchor-vertical:paragraph;mso-element-anchor-horizontal:column;mso-height-rule:exactly'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"NewsGotT","serif";color:#1F497D'>Telefone +351 253 510 168; Fax +351 253 510 117<br></span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"NewsGotT","serif";color:#1F497D'><a href="http://www.sdum.uminho.pt/" title="blocked::http://www.sdum.uminho.pt/"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:purple'>http://www.sdum.uminho.pt</span></a></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"NewsGotT","serif";color:#1F497D'> | </span><o:p></o:p></p></div></td></tr></table><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=PT style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"NewsGotT","serif";color:#1F497D'><br><br><br></span><span lang=PT><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=PT style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"NewsGotT","serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><span lang=PT><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=PT style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"NewsGotT","serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><span lang=PT><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=PT style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"NewsGotT","serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><span lang=PT><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=PT style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"NewsGotT","serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><span lang=PT><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=PT style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"NewsGotT","serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><span lang=PT><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=PT style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"NewsGotT","serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><span lang=PT><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=PT style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"NewsGotT","serif";color:#1F497D'><image004.jpg></span><span lang=PT><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=PT style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><span lang=PT><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=PT style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>De:</span></b><span class=apple-converted-space><span lang=PT style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'> </span></span><span lang=PT style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Stevan Harnad<br><b>Enviada:</b><span class=apple-converted-space> </span>quinta-feira, 19 de Junho de 2014 12:00<br><b>Para:</b><span class=apple-converted-space> </span>Global Open Access List (Successor of AmSci)<br><b>Assunto:</b><span class=apple-converted-space> </span>[GOAL] Re: The Open Access Interviews: Deputy Director General of the Bureau of Policy at the National Natural Science Foundation of China</span><span lang=PT><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=PT> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=PT style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#333333'>The </span><span lang=PT><a href="http://poynder.blogspot.co.uk/2014/06/the-open-access-interviews-deputy.html"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#003366'>two Chinese OA Mandates</span></a></span><span lang=PT style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#333333'> (</span><span lang=PT><a href="http://roarmap.eprints.org/1080/"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#003366'>NSFC</span></a></span><span lang=PT style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#333333'> and </span><span lang=PT><a href="http://roarmap.eprints.org/1079/"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#003366'>CAS</span></a></span><span lang=PT style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#333333'>) came fast (2014), but the possibility of complying with them is coming slowly (no repository till 2016).<br><br>In addition, articles need not be deposited until 12 months after publication.<br><br>In most fields, especially the fast-moving sciences, the benefits of Open Access (maximised uptake, usage, impact and progress) are biggest and most important </span><span lang=PT><a href="http://slac.stanford.edu/pubs/slacpubs/13500/slac-pub-13693.pdf"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#003366'>within the first year of publicatio</span></a></span><span lang=PT style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#333333'>n. That is the growth tip of research. <em><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Access losses in the first year are never fully caught up in later years</span></em>. The iron needs to be struck when it is hot.<br><br>There are two very simple steps that China can take to minimise the needless loss of research uptake, usage and impact because of lost time:<br><br>(1) China should set up the repositories immediately, using the available free softwares such as </span><span lang=PT><a href="http://www.eprints.org/"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#003366'>EPrints</span></a></span><span lang=PT style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#333333'> and </span><span lang=PT><a href="http://www.dspace.org/"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#003366'>DSpace</span></a></span><span lang=PT style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#333333'>. It requires only a server and a few hours worth of set-up time and the repository is ready for deposits. There is no reason whatsoever to wait two years. It would also be sensible to have </span><span lang=PT><a href="https://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&lr=&q=harnad%20OR%20Harnad%20OR%20archivangelism+blogurl:http://openaccess.eprints.org/&ie=UTF-8&tbm=blg&tbs=qdr:m&num=100&c2coff=1&safe=active&gws_rd=ssl#c2coff=1&hl=en&lr=&q=central+institutional+deposit+blogurl:http:%2F%2Fopenaccess.eprints.org%2F&safe=active&tbm=blg"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#003366'>distributed local repositories</span></a></span><span lang=PT style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#333333'> — at universities and research institutions — rather than just one central one. Each institution can easily set up its own repository. All repositories are interoperable and if and when desired, their contents can be automatically exported to or harvested by central repositories.<br><br>(2) Although an OA embargo of 12 months is allowed, China should mandate that deposit itself must be </span><span lang=PT><a href="https://www.google.ca/search?lr=&c2coff=1&safe=active&hl=en&tbm=blg&sclient=psy-ab&q=%22immediate+deposit%22+blogurl:http:%2F%2Fopenaccess.eprints.org%2F&oq=%22immediate+deposit%22+blogurl:http:%2F%2Fopenaccess.eprints.org%2F&gs_l=serp.3...362811.367408.2.369372.19.12.0.0.0.0.0.0..0.0....0...1c.1.47.psy-ab..54.0.0.YrpglCnJKDk&pbx=1&bav=on.2,or.r_cp.r_qf.&bvm=bv.69137298%2Cd.aWw%2Cpv.xjs.s.en_US.zU3ZnWRgvtc.O&biw=1133&bih=790&dpr=1&ech=1&psi=dWyhU_a8O4mvyAT6voHwAQ.1403087990985.9&ei=1GyhU9DmIMuRyAShioGoCQ&emsg=NCSR&noj=1"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#003366'>immediate</span></a></span><span lang=PT style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#333333'>(immediately upon acceptance for publication). Access to the deposit can be set as closed access instead of OA during the embargo if desired, but </span><span lang=PT><a href="http://wiki.eprints.org/w/RequestEprint"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#003366'>EPrints</span></a></span><span lang=PT style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#333333'> and </span><span lang=PT><a href="https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSDOC4x/Request+a+Copy#RequestaCopy-Introduction"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#003366'>DSpace</span></a></span><span lang=PT style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#333333'> repositories have the “</span><span lang=PT><a href="https://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&lr=&q=harnad%20OR%20Harnad%20OR%20archivangelism+blogurl:http://openaccess.eprints.org/&ie=UTF-8&tbm=blg&tbs=qdr:m&num=100&c2coff=1&safe=active&gws_rd=ssl#c2coff=1&hl=en&lr=&q=Button+blogurl%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fopenaccess.eprints.org%2F&safe=active&tbas=0&tbm=blg"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#003366'>Request-Copy” Button</span></a></span><span lang=PT style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#333333'> for closed-access deposits so that individual users can request and authors can provide an individual copy for research purposes with one click each. The repository automatically emails the copy if the author clicks Yes.</span><span lang=PT><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=PT> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=PT style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#333333'>Stevan Harnad</span><span lang=PT><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span lang=PT> <o:p></o:p></span></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=PT>On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 5:04 AM, Richard Poynder <<a href="mailto:richard.poynder@btinternet.com" target="_blank"><span style='color:purple'>richard.poynder@btinternet.com</span></a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-top:5.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:5.0pt;z-index:auto'><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>On May 15 both the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) announced new open access policies.<span lang=PT><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal> <span lang=PT><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Both funders’ policies require that all papers resulting from funded projects must be deposited in online repositories and made publicly accessible within 12 months of publication — a model pioneered by the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) in 2008, when it introduced its influential Public Access Policy.<span lang=PT><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal> <span lang=PT><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>As a result of the new Chinese policies there will be a significant increase in the number of research papers freely available, not least because it comes at a time when the number of papers published by Chinese researchers is growing rapidly. In reporting news of the policies, Nature indicated that Chinese research output has grown from 48,000 articles in 2003, or 5.6% of the global total, to more than 186,000 articles in 2012, or 13.9%.<span lang=PT><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal> <span lang=PT><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Of the latter figure, more than 100,000 papers, or 55.2% of Chinese ouput, involved some funding from the NSFC.<span lang=PT><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal> <span lang=PT><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>A Q&A conducted by email with Prof. Yonghe Zheng, Deputy Director General of the Bureau of Policy, NSFC can be viewed here:<span lang=PT><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal> <span lang=PT><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://poynder.blogspot.co.uk/2014/06/the-open-access-interviews-deputy.html" target="_blank"><span style='color:purple'>http://poynder.blogspot.co.uk/2014/06/the-open-access-interviews-deputy.html</span></a><span lang=PT><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal> <span lang=PT><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></blockquote></div></div></div></blockquote></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></body></html>