[GOAL] FW: [SCHOLCOMM] OSI update

[Richard Poynder]

Forwarding from SCHOLCOMM.

 

 

From: Glenn Hampson [mailto:ghampson at nationalscience.org] 
Sent: 10 September 2014 18:06
To: SCISIP at LISTSERV.NSF.GOV; RESADM-L at lists.healthresearch.org;
scholcomm at ala.org
Subject: [SCHOLCOMM] OSI update

 

Hi Everyone,

 

About 75 of you have already signed up to be part of the "Open Science
Initiative" discussing the current gaps in open access and the future of
science publishing. Thank you for your prompt response. We'll keep the
signup link <http://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0B49AAAB22A1FF2-open1>  (the
code is OSI-2014) active until October 1. Please feel free to forward this
to your colleagues. We would ideally like to have all stakeholder interests
represented here---open access advocates, publishers, research managers,
copyright experts, scholarly communications experts, scientists, science
writers, and more. 

 

In the meantime, a few folks have emailed me expressing concern over the
AAAS's decision to "no longer advance" open access. These words (from my
email a few days ago) were copied from the title of
<http://theconversation.com/top-scientific-publisher-chooses-not-to-advance-
open-access-31248> this article explaining the concerns that some open
access advocates have about how several new online journals (including
Science Advances) are handling questions of copyright, publication fees, and
so on. As noted in
<http://poynder.blogspot.co.uk/2014/08/the-open-access-interviews-paul-royst
er.html> this article by Richard Poynder, this disagreement is also internal
to the open access community---the community itself doesn't agree on what
constitutes open access right now.

 

So the issue is more complicated than the article title suggests, and I
apologize for hastily passing the title along verbatim, which made it look
like a statement of fact,  instead of, more accurately, as just an article
link expressing an OA-related opinion. The AAAS has, in fact, played a
tremendously important and influential role in science over the years, and
can also do so in helping correct the gaps in open access and create a
realistic and sustainable framework for the future of a science publishing.
We very much look forward to working with them in this effort.

 

Sincerely,

 

Glenn

 

 

Glenn Hampson

Executive Director

National Science Communication Institute (nSCI)

 

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