[GOAL] {Disarmed} Access to Federally Funded Publications

[Michael Carroll]

Dear all,

 

     As a reminder, tomorrow is the closing date for registering to
participate in person or remotely in the National Academy of Sciences
meeting on the White House directive for all federally funded journal
articles to be made publicly accessible.
http://sites.nationalacademies.org/DBASSE/CurrentProjects/DBASSE_082378#
.UYkwuUp48mN

 

     Topics to consider commenting on are the appropriate embargo period
and what reuse rights users should have.  The agency plans have to
enable users to read, download and "analyze" the publications.  I
believe "analyze" means analyze computationally, which means enabling
bulk download for text mining purposes.  If others agree, that would be
a useful point to convey.

 

    In addition, I'm going to argue that the agencies should permit
republication of publicly accessible manuscripts on other websites.  As
a fallback, I think at a minimum institutional repositories should have
the rights to mirror the publicly accessible versions of the articles.
Even if your repository would not currently have interest in doing so,
think of this as an insurance policy in the case that funding for public
access repositories dries up in the future.  If mirroring rights are
part of the plan, then the community can work together to maintain
public access. Again, if you agree, that would be a useful point to make
as well.

 

Best,

Mike

 

Michael W. Carroll

Professor of Law and Director, 

Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property

American University, Washington College of Law

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Research papers: http://works.bepress.com/michael_carroll/
<http://law.bepress.com/michael_carroll/> 
http://ssrn.com/author=330326
blog: http://www.carrollogos.blogspot.com/ <http://www.carrollogos.org/>


See also www.creativecommons.org <http://www.creativecommons.org/> 

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