[GOAL] Re: The Open Access Interviews: Deputy Director General of the Bureau of Policy at the National Natural Science Foundation of China

Fri Jun 20 08:04:24 BST 2014

Correct. But actually, the interview I did was focussed on the OA policy of
NSFC rather than the policy at CAS. The NSFC policy can be read here.
<http://www.eifl.net/system/files/201405/140515-nsfc_oa_policy_english.pdf> 

You will see the policy states, "From the day this policy statement is
issued, research papers generated from projects fully or partially funded by
NSFC, when submitted and published in academic journals, the authors of the
papers should deposit the final manuscripts, which have been peer reviewed
and accepted by the journals, to the NSFC repository with an embargo period
of no more than 12 months. Earlier open access should be provided if the
publisher allows. If the paper is published in an open access journal or the
publisher allows the deposit of the published version in PDF format, such
version should be deposited into the NSFC repository and open access should
be provided immediately."

However, as Prof. Yonghe Zheng points out, the NSFC repository may not go
live until 2016.

When I sought clarification on this issue Prof. Zheng replied, "In the
meantime, we encourage them to deposit their papers in their respective
institutional repositories."

This leads me to assume that until the repository goes live the NSFC policy
is one of encouragement rather than necessity.

Richard Poynder

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Of Harnad, Stevan
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To: Global Open Access List (Successor of AmSci)
Subject: [GOAL] Re: The Open Access Interviews: Deputy Director General of
the Bureau of Policy at the National Natural Science Foundation of China
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Here is an important (and very welcome) correction from Eloy Rodrigues:

On Jun 19, 2014, at 7:47 AM, Eloy Rodrigues <eloy—sdum—uminho--pt> wrote:

Hi Stevan,

The CAS mandate is for immediate deposit:

CAS requires its researchers and graduate students to 

deposit an  electronic version of the final, peer-reviewed manuscripts of
their research  articles,

resulted from any public funded scientific research projects,  

submitted and consequently published in academic journals

after the issuing  of this policy, into the open access repositories

of their respective institutes at  the time the article is published,

to be made publicly available within 12 months of the official data of
publication.

And CAS already has a network of IRs. Xiaolin Zhang the CAS Library Director
has been a very active OA and IR advocate.

Best,

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De: Stevan Harnad
Enviada: quinta-feira, 19 de Junho de 2014 12:00
Para: Global Open Access List (Successor of AmSci)
Assunto: [GOAL] Re: The Open Access Interviews: Deputy Director General of
the Bureau of Policy at the National Natural Science Foundation of China

The
<http://poynder.blogspot.co.uk/2014/06/the-open-access-interviews-deputy.htm
l> two Chinese OA Mandates ( <http://roarmap.eprints.org/1080/> NSFC and
<http://roarmap.eprints.org/1079/> CAS) came fast (2014), but the
possibility of complying with them is coming slowly (no repository till
2016).

In addition, articles need not be deposited until 12 months after
publication.

In most fields, especially the fast-moving sciences, the benefits of Open
Access (maximised uptake, usage, impact and progress) are biggest and most
important  <http://slac.stanford.edu/pubs/slacpubs/13500/slac-pub-13693.pdf>
within the first year of publication. That is the growth tip of research.
Access losses in the first year are never fully caught up in later years.
The iron needs to be struck when it is hot.

There are two very simple steps that China can take to minimise the needless
loss of research uptake, usage and impact because of lost time:

(1) China should set up the repositories immediately, using the available
free softwares such as  <http://www.eprints.org/> EPrints and
<http://www.dspace.org/> DSpace. It requires only a server and a few hours
worth of set-up time and the repository is ready for deposits. There is no
reason whatsoever to wait two years. It would also be sensible to have
<https://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&lr=&q=harnad%20OR%20Harnad%20OR%20archiv
angelism+blogurl:http://openaccess.eprints.org/&ie=UTF-8&tbm=blg&tbs=qdr:m&n
um=100&c2coff=1&safe=active&gws_rd=ssl#c2coff=1&hl=en&lr=&q=central+institut
ional+deposit+blogurl:http:%2F%2Fopenaccess.eprints.org%2F&safe=active&tbm=b
lg> distributed local repositories — at universities and research
institutions — rather than just one central one. Each institution can easily
set up its own repository. All repositories are interoperable and if and
when desired, their contents can be automatically exported to or harvested
by central repositories.

(2) Although an OA embargo of 12 months is allowed, China should mandate
that deposit itself must be immediate(immediately upon acceptance for
publication). Access to the deposit can be set as closed access instead of
OA during the embargo if desired, but
<http://wiki.eprints.org/w/RequestEprint> EPrints and
<https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSDOC4x/Request+a+Copy#RequestaCopy-Intr
oduction> DSpace repositories have the “
<https://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&lr=&q=harnad%20OR%20Harnad%20OR%20archiv
angelism+blogurl:http://openaccess.eprints.org/&ie=UTF-8&tbm=blg&tbs=qdr:m&n
um=100&c2coff=1&safe=active&gws_rd=ssl#c2coff=1&hl=en&lr=&q=Button+blogurl%3
Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fopenaccess.eprints.org%2F&safe=active&tbas=0&tbm=blg>
Request-Copy” Button for closed-access deposits so that individual users can
request and authors can provide an individual copy for research purposes
with one click each. The repository automatically emails the copy if the
author clicks Yes.

Stevan Harnad

On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 5:04 AM, Richard Poynder <
<mailto:richard.poynder at btinternet.com> richard.poynder at btinternet.com>
wrote:

On May 15 both the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and the National
Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) announced new open access
policies.

Both funders’ policies require that all papers resulting from funded
projects must be deposited in online repositories and made publicly
accessible within 12 months of publication — a model pioneered by the US
National Institutes of Health (NIH) in 2008, when it introduced its
influential Public Access Policy.

As a result of the new Chinese policies there will be a significant increase
in the number of research papers freely available, not least because it
comes at a time when the number of papers published by Chinese researchers
is growing rapidly. In reporting news of the policies, Nature indicated that
Chinese research output has grown from 48,000 articles in 2003, or 5.6% of
the global total, to more than 186,000 articles in 2012, or 13.9%.

Of the latter figure, more than 100,000 papers, or 55.2% of Chinese ouput,
involved some funding from the NSFC.

A Q&A conducted by email with Prof. Yonghe Zheng, Deputy Director General of
the Bureau of Policy, NSFC can be viewed here:

<http://poynder.blogspot.co.uk/2014/06/the-open-access-interviews-deputy.htm
l>
http://poynder.blogspot.co.uk/2014/06/the-open-access-interviews-deputy.html

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