<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 1:59 AM, Stevan Harnad <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:amsciforum@gmail.com">amsciforum@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Dear all:<br>
<br>
The deadline for responding to the White House RFI on OA to US<br>
federally funded research has been extended to January 12.<br>
<a href="http://www.federalregister.gov/articles/2011/11/04/2011-28623/request-for-information-public-access-to-peer-reviewed-scholarly-publications-resulting-from" target="_blank">http://www.federalregister.gov/articles/2011/11/04/2011-28623/request-for-information-public-access-to-peer-reviewed-scholarly-publications-resulting-from</a><br>
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Please do respond, individually or on behalf of your institutions (as<br>
the Provost of Harvard, Professor Alan Garber, has done, below).<br>
<br></blockquote><div>I would like to commend Harvard for this clear and very detailed response.<br><br>I'd also like to publicize the reponse of Kitware, a commercial software/services company which has written another clear and detailed response. I have blogged about Kitware and their approach to "Open Source" (<a href="http://blogs.ch.cam.ac.uk/pmr/2012/01/05/kitware%E2%80%99s-contribution-to-the-ostp-rfi-on-publicly-funded-data-the-%E2%80%9Copen-source-way%E2%80%9D/">http://blogs.ch.cam.ac.uk/pmr/2012/01/05/kitware%E2%80%99s-contribution-to-the-ostp-rfi-on-publicly-funded-data-the-%E2%80%9Copen-source-way%E2%80%9D/</a> ). Note that Kitware make a great deal of their software available to the community under F/OSS licences (analogous to CC-BY for documents). <br>
<br></div><div style="margin-left:40px"><div><span>At Kitware, we have decided to respond to both
RFIs the</span><span> </span><strong>"</strong><span>Open Source Way</span><strong>"</strong><span>.</span></div>
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<p>We have posted the draft of our responses in the two
public documents below:</p>
<ul><li style="margin-left:15px"><a href="https://docs.google.com/a/kitware.com/document/d/1vEcWqAz6bwIIR6qQqWZYc8iUBrOpJ9NrvC9HiiQMc2Y/edit?hl=en_US" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">Open Response
to RFI on Public Access to Digital Data</a></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><a href="https://docs.google.com/a/kitware.com/document/d/1QA1eGBynqh-yN0bo3_nYzD3d26nEhvuVPMUR2ffi17o/edit?hl=en_US" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">Open Response
to RFI on Public Access to Peer-Reviewed Publications</a></li></ul>
<p>and we now invite everyone to join us in refining and
extending the answers to both RFIs. The documents are open for
editing by anyone with the link.</p>
<p><font color="#500050" face="arial, sans-serif">Please
join us in improving the feedback that we are providing to
OSTP, or if you are satisfied with the current content of the
documents, please join us by signing the response at the end
of each document. The response will be submitted in the name
of the signing parties. </font></p>
<p>This of course, is not intended to preclude nor
diminish any other initiatives for responding to the RFIs. We
just want to make sure that we grab this unique opportunity to
drive federal policy.</p>
<p><br>
</p>
<p>We will close down edits on<strong> January 10th</strong>,
to format the final document responses and submit them to OSTP
by <strong>January 12th</strong>.</p>
<p>Also, watch for an upcoming <a href="http://inscight.org/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">inSCIght podcast</a> on this
topic, open access and federally funded research, which should
be available sometime this week.</p>
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<div> Happy New Open Access Year !</div>
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Luis<br>
""" <br></div></div>-- <br>Peter Murray-Rust<br>Reader in Molecular Informatics<br>Unilever Centre, Dep. Of Chemistry<br>University of Cambridge<br>CB2 1EW, UK<br>+44-1223-763069<br>