> Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2001 22:43:16 -0800 > From: Public Library of Science Initiative <[email protected]> > Reply-To: [email protected] > Subject: Please tell your colleagues about Public Library of Science > > Michael Ashburner, University of Cambridge > Patrick O. Brown, Stanford University > Mary Case, Association of Research Libraries > Michael B. Eisen, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab and UC Berkeley > Lee Hartwell, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center > Marc Kirschner, Harvard University > Chaitan Khosla, Stanford University > Roel Nusse, Stanford University > Richard J. Roberts, New England Biolabs > Matthew Scott, Stanford University > Harold Varmus, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center > Barbara Wold, Caltech > > We write to ask for your support of an initiative to provide > unrestricted access to the published record of scientific research. > An open letter in support of this initiative has been signed by more > than 4,500 scientists from 91 countries. > > http://www.publiclibraryofscience.org. > > http://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/full/041601398v1
Everyone is strongly encouraged to sign the above petition BUT we should not then sit and wait for the petition to be complied with! The refereed research literature can already be freed, now, through author/institution self-archiving. It would be a shame (and a waste of precious time, potential research impact and potential research access) if our hopes and energies were all dissipated in merely petitioning and waiting when we can already take the entire matter into our own hands, now: The "Subversive Proposal": http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200304/cmselect/cmsctech/399/399we152.htm How to get around restrictive copyright (there is no need to switch journals, and no justification for any 6-month delay!): http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Tp/resolution.htm#Harnad/Oppenheim What you can do now (researchers, universities, libraries): http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Tp/resolution.htm#7. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Stevan Harnad [email protected] Professor of Cognitive Science [email protected] Department of Electronics and phone: +44 23-80 592-582 Computer Science fax: +44 23-80 592-865 University of Southampton http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/ Highfield, Southampton http://www.princeton.edu/~harnad/ SO17 1BJ UNITED KINGDOM NOTE: A complete archive of the ongoing discussion of providing free access to the refereed journal literature online is available at the American Scientist September Forum (98 & 99 & 00 & 01): http://amsci-forum.amsci.org/archives/American-Scientist-Open-Access-Forum.html You may join the list at the site above. Discussion can be posted to: [email protected]
