-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Two big stories in the past few days:
* On Jan. 11, the U.S. National Institutes of Health (the world's largest single funder of scientific research) implemented its mandate to ensure public access to grantee research, which had been signed into law on Dec. 26. Links to the policy and commentary here: http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2008/01/nih-releases-its-new-oa-policy.html The NIH mandate is the first public access mandate in the U.S., and the first worldwide approved by a legislature (other public mandates were adopted by the agency). * On Jan. 10 (apparently), the European Research Council released its public access mandate. The ERC accounts for about 15% of the EU's research budget. This is the first EU-wide public access mandate. Policy and commentary here: http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2008/01/oa-mandate-from-european-research.html The ERC mandate is stronger than the NIH's in two regards: 1. The ERC mandate allows authors to deposit in any open access repository, while the NIH requires authors to deposit only in the NIH's own database (PubMed Central) 2. The ERC mandate allows a maximum 6 month "embargo" from publication until open access is provided, while the NIH allows up to 12 months of embargo. Both mandates are stronger than the mandates of some other public agencies, which allow a loophole if the author's chosen publisher claims to prohibit self-archiving. The ERC mandate doesn't discuss any such loophole, and the NIH policy specifically prohibits it. - -- Gavin Baker http://www.gavinbaker.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHiRITtLXQdLhFpekRAlyIAJ9K/buonTG59LPhNC6EbhD0Em450ACfW4pY V5HjSW/aVSeqn2fKBmz4nSA= =xxu8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://freeculture.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss
