<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div><font face="Arial">On 2013-02-04, at 4:43 AM, [name not posted] wrote:</font></div><font face="Arial"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></font><blockquote type="cite"><div style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><font face="Arial"><div>Dear Professor Harnad</div><div> </div><div>Your name has been suggested to me by member of the</div></font></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><font face="Arial">RadStats network as someone who may be able to provide</font></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><font face="Arial"><div>more information an open access information sources.</div><div> </div><div>I work in a local authority research team and trying to access</div></font></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><font face="Arial">academic articles to build evidence to support commissioning</font></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><font face="Arial">of services has had me scratching my head for a while.</font></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><font face="Arial">We hold a subscription to the IDOX Information Service which fulfils</font></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><font face="Arial">our needs in terms of remaining up to date on new developments,</font></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><font face="Arial">but when it comes to accessing the full-text articles of articles</font></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><font face="Arial"><div>older than a month, we are a bit stumped!</div><div> </div><div>I’ve been in touch with our local universities’ libraries and they are</div></font></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><font face="Arial">keen to work closely with us and provide us with access to some</font></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><font face="Arial">of their resources or staff that can produce the type of work we require.</font></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><font face="Arial">Open access was mentioned, but there doesn’t seem to be a definitive</font></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><font face="Arial">source of information (there may not be!) but I was wondering if you</font></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><font face="Arial">could provide me with some general pointers in order to find freely</font></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><font face="Arial"><div>available academic and published research to help us with our work.</div><div> </div><div>Please feel free to contact me for more information or to discuss further.</div></font></div></blockquote><div><br></div></div><div><font face="Arial">Providing Open Access (OA) means making academic articles free for all online, </font></div><div><font face="Arial">The <a href="http://roarmap.eprints.org/179/">University of Leicester</a> has a mandate (requirement) that all of its published </font></div><div><font face="Arial">articles are made OA by self-archiving them in the University's institutional </font></div><div><font face="Arial">repository, <a href="http://roar.eprints.org/797/">Leicester Research Archive (LRA)</a>. Leicester also has an</font></div><div><font face="Arial"> <a href="http://roar.eprints.org/3991/">Open Educational Resources Archive</a>. DeMontfort University also has a repository,</font></div><div><font face="Arial"> <a href="http://roar.eprints.org/286/">DORA</a>, but no self-archiving mandate.</font></div><div><font face="Arial"><br></font></div><div><font face="Arial">If you want access to all UK research output, your County Council and others should</font></div><div><font face="Arial">singly and jointly urge both the UK universities (local and national) and the BIS and </font></div><div><font face="Arial">Research Councils UK, to mandate that all UK research output is self-archived. </font></div><div><font face="Arial">(This is also called "Green OA" -- to distinguish it from "Gold OA", which is much more costly, </font></div><div><font face="Arial">because it requires publishing in a journal that charges the author a fee for making the article OA.)</font></div><div><font face="Arial"><br></font></div><div><font face="Arial">You have a strong case for insisting that OA is mandated. It is your taxes that fund research </font></div><div><font face="Arial">(and universities), as well as their subscriptions to journals. Journal subscriptions only allow </font></div><div><font face="Arial">access for University users, yet (worldwide) subscriptions are paying the full cost of publication </font></div><div><font face="Arial">many times over.</font></div><div><font face="Arial"><br></font></div><div><font face="Arial">Hence all researchers ought to be required to do Green OA self-archiving of all of their </font></div><div><font face="Arial">research output. This is happening worldwide, but it needs to be accelerated, and I urge you</font></div><div><font face="Arial"> to help accelerate it by mobilizing to insist BIS and RCUK and Universities all mandate it.</font></div><div><br></div><div><font face="Arial">Stevan Harnad</font></div><div><br></div><br></div></div><br></body></html>