Hello, I am in the process of lobbying my academic institution to provide and support an Eprints server and associated infrastructure. So far progress has mainly consisted of a meeting with our library director and a few of his staff. We are setting up a meeting with the Subcommittee on Information Technology and Library here in a week or so also. One of the questions the library director asked was: how many journals currently have copyrights that allow self-archiving? Is anyone collecting such a list?
Thanks, Chris. --------------------- Christopher G. Prince, Ph.D. University of Minnesota Duluth Department of Computer Science 320 Heller Hall, 10 University Drive Duluth, MN 55812 USA (218) 726-6514 [email protected] http://www.cprince.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim Till" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, January 19, 2001 12:01 AM Subject: PubMed Central > A recent advocacy effort about PubMed Central (found via: > http://www.publiclibraryofscience.org/index.shtml): > > "publiclibraryofscience.org was established to organize support > within the scientific community for online public libraries of > science, providing unrestricted free access to the archival record of > scientific research." > > "Scientists can express their support for this effort by signing an > open letter. 1507 scientists from 52 countries have already signed. > Your support will help us to persuade the publishers of scientific > journals to commit to giving their archival material to the public > domain for distribution through online public libraries." > > "More information about this effort, the current editorial policies of > journals, and related issues is available in our FAQ. We also > encourage you to read an editorial written by Richard Roberts and > published in PNAS describing why he thinks scientists should support > this effort." > > URLs for: > > Open letter: http://www.publiclibraryofscience.org/plosLetter.htm > > FAQ: http://www.publiclibraryofscience.org/plosFAQ.htm > > Editorial: http://www.publiclibraryofscience.org/plosRoberts.htm > > The editorial is also available via the Jan. 16 issue of PNAS: > > Richard J. Roberts > "PubMed Central: The GenBank of the published literature" > PNAS 2001 98: 381-382. > > Jim Till > University of Toronto >
