[GOAL] Re: Chemistry and the Green Door

[Peter Murray-Rust]

On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 9:19 AM, Kiley, Robert <r.kiley at wellcome.ac.uk>wrote:

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> These 1059 articles were deposited via the ACS “open choice” option.
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Thanks - This is (I believe) hybrid Gold - author pays for MS to be "Open"
in some definition of the term (but not yet CC-BY)

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> There will be other ACS papers, funded by NIH authors, which are in PMC
> but were not routed through the “open choice” route.  These papers will be
> made available after 12 months, and will not have re-use permissions.
> These papers are what NIH call “public access”.****
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> By way of example this article published in Organic Letters is an NIH
> author manuscript.   http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3253247
> This article would NOT have been included in the 1059 figure quoted above.
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Thanks for the example.

Again, to interpret:
* This is mandated by NIH. NIH-funded Authors must publish their work
openly. The ACS complies with extreme reluctance, fighting all the way. The
only reason it works is because the US government has more power than the
ACS (and they have been taking this approach for some time). They get very
high compliance because the government is their employer and US government
institutions (I am visiting a national lab next week) have huge investment
in bureaucracy. They will lose their jobs if they don't comply.

Can you confirm that there are no Green full text manuscripts in PMC?

Wellcome (and some other funders) are taking a similar approach. Their hold
is weaker, but still strong - non-compliance will lead to loss of future
grants and possible forfeiture of final grant payments. As I said I support
this. It's harder than the NIH employee scheme because (a) many Wellcome
papers are multi-institution and (b) the formal hold ends at the end of the
grant (and many publications are post-grant) and (c) it needs investment in
policing.


P.

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