On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 1:59 AM, Stevan Harnad <amsciforum at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear all: > > The deadline for responding to the White House RFI on OA to US > federally funded research has been extended to January 12. > > http://www.federalregister.gov/articles/2011/11/04/2011-28623/request-for-information-public-access-to-peer-reviewed-scholarly-publications-resulting-from > > Please do respond, individually or on behalf of your institutions (as > the Provost of Harvard, Professor Alan Garber, has done, below). > > I would like to commend Harvard for this clear and very detailed response. I'd also like to publicize the reponse of Kitware, a commercial software/services company which has written another clear and detailed response. I have blogged about Kitware and their approach to "Open Source" ( http://blogs.ch.cam.ac.uk/pmr/2012/01/05/kitware%E2%80%99s-contribution-to-the-ostp-rfi-on-publicly-funded-data-the-%E2%80%9Copen-source-way%E2%80%9D/). Note that Kitware make a great deal of their software available to the community under F/OSS licences (analogous to CC-BY for documents). At Kitware, we have decided to respond to both RFIs the *"*Open Source Way*" *. We have posted the draft of our responses in the two public documents below: - Open Response to RFI on Public Access to Digital Data<https://docs.google.com/a/kitware.com/document/d/1vEcWqAz6bwIIR6qQqWZYc8iUBrOpJ9NrvC9HiiQMc2Y/edit?hl=en_US> - Open Response to RFI on Public Access to Peer-Reviewed Publications<https://docs.google.com/a/kitware.com/document/d/1QA1eGBynqh-yN0bo3_nYzD3d26nEhvuVPMUR2ffi17o/edit?hl=en_US> and we now invite everyone to join us in refining and extending the answers to both RFIs. The documents are open for editing by anyone with the link. Please join us in improving the feedback that we are providing to OSTP, or if you are satisfied with the current content of the documents, please join us by signing the response at the end of each document. The response will be submitted in the name of the signing parties. This of course, is not intended to preclude nor diminish any other initiatives for responding to the RFIs. We just want to make sure that we grab this unique opportunity to drive federal policy. We will close down edits on* January 10th*, to format the final document responses and submit them to OSTP by *January 12th*. Also, watch for an upcoming inSCIght podcast <http://inscight.org/> on this topic, open access and federally funded research, which should be available sometime this week. Happy New Open Access Year ! Luis """ -- Peter Murray-Rust Reader in Molecular Informatics Unilever Centre, Dep. Of Chemistry University of Cambridge CB2 1EW, UK +44-1223-763069 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/pipermail/goal/attachments/20120105/47da18ed/attachment.html
