Salvatore Mele is a great supporter of Openness and is spearheading the effort to Open high Energy physics. He's asking for people to fill in an Open Access survey. I know BO is not OA, and I have warned him that he won't get many mainstream chemists responding, but you might like to spread this to other lists
Thanks P. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Salvatore Mele <[email protected]> Date: Fri, May 28, 2010 at 10:07 AM Subject: Open Access attitudes (in chemistry) To: Peter Murray-Rust <[email protected]> Dear Peter, long time no seen and I hope we'll cross paths again sometime soon. Among (too) many things, I've been co-ordinating an European Project to try and understand where's the gap (money? understanding? logic?) between what's on offer in Open Access journals and what's *really* needed by scientists. We're almost done with the offer, but to asses the needs, instead of hearsay, we're going the old-fashioned "collect data, lots of that, and representative, and then analyse it". It might sound new in some quarters. We've a questionnaire up at http://surveymonkey.com/soap_survey_d to this target. The good news is that we've got (through publishers mailing lists) 40k answers to the questionnaire across all possible fields of science and the humanities. The bad news is that published scientists in chemistry seem to be under-represented in this sample (or at least, we got more people publishing in Education or Psychology) than chemistry. I think the discipline (together with a few more hard sciences) would benefit from a larger representation and I was wondering if you would have access to a few mailing lists where you could help us spread the voice. The survey data will be eventually public, so that anyone involved into publishing and/or the OA debate can mine them and make up their own opinion. I hope you'll be able to help. Salvatore P.S. I'm appending a text we've used to make some publicity so far. -- Dr. Salvatore Mele CERN - Open Access Section - Project Leader SCOAP3 - Interim Project Manager Voice: + 41 22 767 8603 - E-mail: [email protected] Postal address: C27900, CERN, CH1211 Geneva 23, Switzerland http://scoap3.org Your views on open access publishing are needed! The SOAP Project (*), funded by the European Commission, would like to announce the release of an online survey to assess researchers' experiences with open access publishing. This survey aims to inform the most comprehensive analysis of attitudes to open access publishing to date and is seeking views from a wide a range of interested parties. It is primarily aimed at active researchers in public and private organizations, from all research fields in science and the humanities and focuses on publication of research articles in (open access) peer-reviewed journals. If you would like to contribute to shaping the public discourse on open access, please visit http://surveymonkey.com/soap_survey_d. It should take 10-15 minutes to complete. We would appreciate if you would share this link with your colleagues and collaborators, so that the views of your discipline are properly represented. The survey outcome will be made public and the resulting insights as well as recommendations will be openly shared with the European Commission, publishers, research funding agencies, libraries and researchers. Thanks in advance, the SOAP Project Team [email protected] (*) Note: The SOAP consortium is coordinated by CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research. It represents key stakeholders in open access, such as publishers BioMed Central, SAGE and Springer; funding agencies (the UK Science and Technology Facilities Council) and libraries (the Max Planck Digital Library of the Max Planck Society). The project runs for two years, from March 2009 to February 2011. -- Peter Murray-Rust Reader in Molecular Informatics Unilever Centre, Dep. Of Chemistry University of Cambridge CB2 1EW, UK +44-1223-763069
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