[GOAL] Re: Fwd: Harvard response to the White House RFI on OA to publicly funded research

[Peter Murray-Rust]

On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 1:59 AM, Stevan Harnad <amsciforum at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear all:
>
> The deadline for responding to the White House RFI on OA to US
> federally funded research has been extended to January 12.
>
> http://www.federalregister.gov/articles/2011/11/04/2011-28623/request-for-information-public-access-to-peer-reviewed-scholarly-publications-resulting-from
>
> Please do respond, individually or on behalf of your institutions (as
> the Provost of Harvard, Professor Alan Garber, has done, below).
>
> I would like to commend Harvard for this clear and very detailed response.

I'd also like to publicize the reponse of Kitware, a commercial
software/services company which has written another clear and detailed
response. I have blogged about Kitware and their approach to "Open Source" (
http://blogs.ch.cam.ac.uk/pmr/2012/01/05/kitware%E2%80%99s-contribution-to-the-ostp-rfi-on-publicly-funded-data-the-%E2%80%9Copen-source-way%E2%80%9D/).
Note that Kitware make a great deal of their software available to the
community under F/OSS licences (analogous to CC-BY for documents).

At Kitware, we have decided to respond to both RFIs the *"*Open Source Way*"
*.

We have posted the draft of our responses in the two public documents below:

   - Open Response to RFI on Public Access to Digital
Data<https://docs.google.com/a/kitware.com/document/d/1vEcWqAz6bwIIR6qQqWZYc8iUBrOpJ9NrvC9HiiQMc2Y/edit?hl=en_US>
   - Open Response to RFI on Public Access to Peer-Reviewed
Publications<https://docs.google.com/a/kitware.com/document/d/1QA1eGBynqh-yN0bo3_nYzD3d26nEhvuVPMUR2ffi17o/edit?hl=en_US>

and we now invite everyone to join us in refining and extending the answers
to both RFIs. The documents are open for editing by anyone with the link.

Please join us in improving the feedback that we are providing to OSTP, or
if you are satisfied with the current content of the documents, please join
us by signing the response at the end of each document. The response will
be submitted in the name of the signing parties.

This of course, is not intended to preclude nor diminish any other
initiatives for responding to the RFIs. We just want to make sure that we
grab this unique opportunity to drive federal policy.


 We will close down edits on* January 10th*, to format the final document
responses and submit them to OSTP by *January 12th*.

Also, watch for an upcoming inSCIght podcast <http://inscight.org/> on this
topic, open access and federally funded research, which should be available
sometime this week.

     Happy New Open Access Year !


        Luis
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-- 
Peter Murray-Rust
Reader in Molecular Informatics
Unilever Centre, Dep. Of Chemistry
University of Cambridge
CB2 1EW, UK
+44-1223-763069
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