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<div>Thanks very much for this, Peter. I’m probably being dense, but I can’t see a way to download the report. On the possibility that I’m not the only one failing to see it, could you (or someone else more quick-witted/observant than I) tell us how that can
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<span style="font-weight:bold">From: </span>Peter Suber<br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Reply-To: </span>Peter Suber<br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Date: </span>Tuesday, March 15, 2016 at 10:37 AM<br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">To: </span>GOAL post, BOAI Forum post, SOAF post, "<a href="mailto:sparc-coapi@arl.org">sparc-coapi@arl.org</a>"<br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Subject: </span>[sparc-oaforum] Journal-flipping report open for public comments<br>
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Last year (April 2015) the Harvard Library Office for Scholarly Communication issued a request for proposals to write "a comprehensive literature review on methods for converting subscription-based scholarly journals to open access."</div>
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<div class="gmail_default"><font face="trebuchet ms,sans-serif"><a href="https://osc.hul.harvard.edu/programs/journal-flipping/request-for-proposal/" target="_blank">https://osc.hul.harvard.edu/programs/journal-flipping/request-for-proposal/</a></font></div>
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<div class="gmail_default"><font face="trebuchet ms,sans-serif">In June 2015 we awarded the contract to David Solomon, Bo-Christer Björk, and Mikael Laakso.</font></div>
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<div class="gmail_default"><font face="trebuchet ms,sans-serif">We're happy to announce today that the preliminary version of their report is now open for public comments.</font></div>
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<div class="gmail_default"><font face="trebuchet ms,sans-serif">Please read it and add comments, and please spread the word to help us gather as many useful comments as possible.</font></div>
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<div class="gmail_default"><font face="trebuchet ms,sans-serif">From our original RFP: "The purpose of the public comments is to supplement the literature review, make it more complete, more detailed, and more useful. For example, the public comments might
add readings omitted from the literature review, extract new recommendations from readings already covered, suggest new clarity or detail for recommendations already formulated, and add notes to help readers consider the merits of the recommendations."</font></div>
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<div class="gmail_default"><font face="trebuchet ms,sans-serif">The version we release today will not be the final version. After the public-comment period (toward the end of April 2016), we'll create a new version incorporating selected public comments, and
pass it to a panel of experts for an additional set of comments. Then Dave, Bo-Christer, and Mikael will make their final revisions in light of the public comments, the panelist comments, our comments from within the Office for Scholarly Communication, and
their own second thoughts. We'll add a preface and publish that version in the summer or early fall.</font></div>
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<div class="gmail_default"><font face="trebuchet ms,sans-serif">We don't promise to incorporate all the public comments in the final version, not even all attributed comments. But we'll favor comments that carry real-name attribution. The panelist comments
will all carry real-name attribution.</font></div>
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<div class="gmail_default"><font face="trebuchet ms,sans-serif">(If you post a comment on the document, you'll be granting us permission to include it in this and future versions under a CC-BY version 4.0 international license.)</font></div>
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<div class="gmail_default"><font face="trebuchet ms,sans-serif">We thank Arcadia for the funds we used to commission this research.</font></div>
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<div class="gmail_default"><font face="trebuchet ms,sans-serif">We thank Eddie Tejeda, Christian Wach, and the Institute for the Future of the Book for CommentPress, the open-source WordPress plugin we're using to post the current draft for public comments.
We also thank Kathleen Fitzpatrick for the CommentPress theme we adapted for the present use.</font></div>
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<div class="gmail_default"><font face="trebuchet ms,sans-serif">Finally, we thank David Solomon, Bo-Christer Björk, and Mikael Laakso for their careful research and their willingness to subject it to public comment before final publication.</font></div>
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<div class="gmail_default"><font face="trebuchet ms,sans-serif">Home page for the journal-flipping project</font></div>
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