[GOAL] Re: {Disarmed} American Physical Society Sets Example ForPublishers Worldwide

[FrederickFriend]

I agree with Stevan’s recognition of the research-friendly policies practised by APS over many years. As a member of APS’ Library Committee in the pre-OA world I found that they were the only publisher to be completely open about their budgets and very modest surpluses on subscriptions. I do not know how we can persuade more publishers to be like APS but I do know that if we could perform that miracle, we would not be in the difficult situation we face today either on OA policies or on subscriptions.

Fred Friend
Honorary Director Scholarly Communication UCL

 

From: Stevan Harnad 
Sent: Sunday, October 14, 2012 12:46 PM
To: Global Open Access List (Successor of AmSci) 
Subject: [GOAL] {Disarmed} American Physical Society Sets Example ForPublishers Worldwide

For those who keep thinking it's impossible, the American Physical
Society (APS) is still there, a permanent historiic record of the fact 
that it was and is possible for a publisher to act responsibly in the
online era, not putting its own financial interests aheda of the interests
of research and researchers:

1. The APS was the world's first "Green" publisher -- meaning APS
formally recognized and endorsed its authors' right to self-archive
their peer-reviewed papers in an Open Access repository,
immediately upon acceptance for publication.
http://users.ecs.soton.ac.uk/harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/subject.html#msg5291

2. The APS never embargoed Green OA.

3. The APS allowed the right to create derivative works as soon
as the author community indicated it needed and wanted them.

4. The APS never lobbied against Green OA or Green OA mandates
by fudners of institutions.

5. The APS never back-pedalled from its Green OA policy.

6. The APS also offered hybrid Gold-CC-BY for a fee, for those
authors who needed and wanted it. (This is a perfectly 
reasonable special case of hybrid Gold OA at this early stage
of global OA.)

7. All but one of APS's High Energy Physics journals have
also joined the SOAP3 consortium (which is in fact beyond
the call of duty!)

8. The APS is a Learned Society, and never invoked
the need to ensure funding for its "good works" as an
excuse for opposing OA. 

All publishers can and will adapt to OA. But the ones that keep
trying to delay and obstruct it will not only have retarded 
research progress, but will also have left a permanent and
shameful blemish on their historical record -- the very record
that publishing is dedicated to providing and preserving.

Stevan Harnad

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  From: LIBLICENSE <liblicense at GMAIL.COM>

  Subject: Re: 2012 Nobel Prize in Physics in APS Journals

  Date: 14 October, 2012 7:08:22 AM EDT

  To: <LIBLICENSE-L at listserv.crl.edu>

  Reply-To: LibLicense-L Discussion Forum <LIBLICENSE-L at listserv.crl.edu>


  From: Mark Doyle <doyle at aps.org>
  Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2012 16:35:05 -0400

  Hi David,

  On Oct 10, 2012, at 3:12 PM, you wrote:


    This is obviously a very generous gesture on behalf of the APS.



    A much wider range of papers by Professor Haroche and Wineland are

    also available, permanently open access, through arXiv.


  Some of the most significant work cited in the prize predates arXiv,
  but you are, of course, correct. APS has been a strong supporter of
  arXiv and was the first publisher to amend our copyright transfer
  agreement to explicitly permit Green OA (either on author web sites or
  in repositories) for all articles published in our journals (1997). We
  continue to evolve our agreement with more recent changes including
  generous rights related to derivative works. Any expansion of authors'
  rights under our transfer agreement apply retroactively to all
  articles published, not just future articles.. Finally, all of our
  journals allow authors to choose to publish under a CC-BY license
  (usually for a fee) if that is their preference. So we are quite happy
  to have this work widely available in all of its different guises.

  Best,
  Mark Doyle



    Best wishes



    David Prosser





    On 9 Oct 2012, at 22:01, LIBLICENSE wrote:



      From: Mark Doyle <doyle at aps.org>

      Date: Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 4:15 PM



      Dear all,



      [Please excuse any cross-posting.]



      The American Physical Society congratulates Serge Haroche and David

      Wineland, both Fellows of the APS, for their 2012 Nobel Prize in

      Physics. They and their collaborators have made significant advances

      in the realization of quantum phenomena with many beautiful

      experiments. Their abilitiy to manipulate atoms and photons to

      demonstrate fundamental aspects of quantum physics has been documented

      in many journal articles. We are very pleased that much of this

      seminal work has been published in the APS journals: Physical Review

      Letters, Physical Review A, and Reviews of Modern Physics. To honor

      these laureates and their collaborators, we have made freely available

      five of their many APS publications that demonstrate some of the key

      insights of their pioneering work. Please see our full announcement

      (http://publish.aps.org/edannounce/2012-nobel-physics) and press

      release (MailScanner has detected a possible fraud attempt from "www.aps.org" claiming to be http://www.aps..org/about/pressreleases/nobel12.cfm) for

      further information, including the five papers that have been made

      Free to Read.



      Best regards,

      Mark



      Mark Doyle

      Director, Journal Information Systems

      American Physical Society





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