Friends:
I am writing to you to seek your support for the open access movement. I am
sure most of you know about OA. Those who may not know about OA, may please
look up the blog of Prof. Peter Suber of Earlham College. You may also look up
the prolific writings of Stevan Harnad.
The recently held meeting at Southampton came up with the following proposal:
In order to implement the Berlin Declaration institutions should:
(1) Implement a policy to require their researchers to deposit a copy of all
their published articles in an open access repository.
and
(2) encourage their researchers to publish their research articles in open
access journals where a suitable journal exists and provide the support to
enable that to happen.
I suggest that all of us pledge to make our research papers available through
open access archives or through open access journals. Why, you may ask. Because
it increases the visibility and citability of one's work. And open access
archiving is the ONLY way we can make information access a level playing field
for scientists and scholars around the world. And open access will help
knowledge grow faster.
Physicists were among the first to adopt the culture of archiving. their
central archive, arXiv, first set up at Los Alamos National Laboratory is now
run from Cornell University. It is serving physicists around the world for the
past 15 years. In our field, we do have an open access journal. But we need and
deserve much more.
Regards.
Arun
[Subbiah Arunachalam]
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