<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>For those who keep thinking it's impossible, the American Physical</div><div>Society (APS) is still there, a permanent historiic record of the fact </div><div>that it was and is possible for a publisher to act responsibly in the</div><div>online era, not putting its own financial interests aheda of the interests</div><div>of research and researchers:</div><div><br></div><div>1. The APS was the world's first "Green" publisher -- meaning APS</div><div>formally recognized and endorsed its authors' right to self-archive</div><div>their peer-reviewed papers in an Open Access repository,</div><div>immediately upon acceptance for publication.</div><div><a href="http://users.ecs.soton.ac.uk/harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/subject.html#msg5291">http://users.ecs.soton.ac.uk/harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/subject.html#msg5291</a></div><div><br></div><div>2. The APS never embargoed Green OA.</div><div><br></div><div>3. The APS allowed the right to create derivative works as soon</div><div>as the author community indicated it needed and wanted them.</div><div><br></div><div>4. The APS never lobbied against Green OA or Green OA mandates</div><div>by fudners of institutions.</div><div><br></div><div>5. The APS never back-pedalled from its Green OA policy.</div><div><br></div><div>6. The APS also offered hybrid Gold-CC-BY for a fee, for those</div><div>authors who needed and wanted it. (This is a perfectly </div><div>reasonable special case of hybrid Gold OA at this early stage</div><div>of global OA.)</div><div><br></div><div>7. All but one of APS's High Energy Physics journals have</div><div>also joined the SOAP3 consortium (which is in fact beyond</div><div>the call of duty!)</div><div><br></div><div>8. The APS is a Learned Society, and never invoked</div><div>the need to ensure funding for its "good works" as an</div><div>excuse for opposing OA. </div><div><br></div><div>All publishers can and will adapt to OA. But the ones that keep</div><div>trying to delay and obstruct it will not only have retarded </div><div>research progress, but will also have left a permanent and</div><div>shameful blemish on their historical record -- the very record</div><div>that publishing is dedicated to providing and preserving.</div><div><br></div><div>Stevan Harnad</div><div><br><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>From: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">LIBLICENSE <<a href="mailto:liblicense@GMAIL.COM">liblicense@GMAIL.COM</a>><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>Subject: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;"><b>Re: 2012 Nobel Prize in Physics in APS Journals</b><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>Date: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">14 October, 2012 7:08:22 AM EDT<br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>To: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;"><<a href="mailto:LIBLICENSE-L@listserv.crl.edu">LIBLICENSE-L@listserv.crl.edu</a>><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>Reply-To: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">LibLicense-L Discussion Forum <<a href="mailto:LIBLICENSE-L@listserv.crl.edu">LIBLICENSE-L@listserv.crl.edu</a>><br></span></div><br><div>From: Mark Doyle <<a href="mailto:doyle@aps.org">doyle@aps.org</a>><br>Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2012 16:35:05 -0400<br><br>Hi David,<br><br>On Oct 10, 2012, at 3:12 PM, you wrote:<br><br><blockquote type="cite">This is obviously a very generous gesture on behalf of the APS.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">A much wider range of papers by Professor Haroche and Wineland are<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">also available, permanently open access, through arXiv.<br></blockquote><br>Some of the most significant work cited in the prize predates arXiv,<br>but you are, of course, correct. APS has been a strong supporter of<br>arXiv and was the first publisher to amend our copyright transfer<br>agreement to explicitly permit Green OA (either on author web sites or<br>in repositories) for all articles published in our journals (1997). We<br>continue to evolve our agreement with more recent changes including<br>generous rights related to derivative works. Any expansion of authors'<br>rights under our transfer agreement apply retroactively to all<br>articles published, not just future articles.. Finally, all of our<br>journals allow authors to choose to publish under a CC-BY license<br>(usually for a fee) if that is their preference. So we are quite happy<br>to have this work widely available in all of its different guises.<br><br>Best,<br>Mark Doyle<br><br><br><blockquote type="cite">Best wishes<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">David Prosser<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">On 9 Oct 2012, at 22:01, LIBLICENSE wrote:<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">From: Mark Doyle <<a href="mailto:doyle@aps.org">doyle@aps.org</a>><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Date: Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 4:15 PM<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Dear all,<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">[Please excuse any cross-posting.]<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">The American Physical Society congratulates Serge Haroche and David<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Wineland, both Fellows of the APS, for their 2012 Nobel Prize in<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Physics. They and their collaborators have made significant advances<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">in the realization of quantum phenomena with many beautiful<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">experiments. Their abilitiy to manipulate atoms and photons to<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">demonstrate fundamental aspects of quantum physics has been documented<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">in many journal articles. We are very pleased that much of this<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">seminal work has been published in the APS journals: Physical Review<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Letters, Physical Review A, and Reviews of Modern Physics. To honor<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">these laureates and their collaborators, we have made freely available<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">five of their many APS publications that demonstrate some of the key<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">insights of their pioneering work. Please see our full announcement<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">(<a href="http://publish.aps.org/edannounce/2012-nobel-physics">http://publish.aps.org/edannounce/2012-nobel-physics</a>) and press<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">release (<a href="http://www.aps.org/about/pressreleases/nobel12.cfm"><font color="red"><b>MailScanner has detected a possible fraud attempt from "www.aps.org" claiming to be</b></font> http://www.aps..org/about/pressreleases/nobel12.cfm</a>) for<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">further information, including the five papers that have been made<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Free to Read.<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Best regards,<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Mark<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Mark Doyle<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Director, Journal Information Systems<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">American Physical Society<br></blockquote></blockquote></div></blockquote></div><br></body></html>