---------- Forwarded message ---------- List-Post: [email protected] List-Post: [email protected] Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2005 15:55:35 -0000 From: "MCGRANE, Christine" <[email protected]> Subject: PUBLICATION OF GOVERNMENT RESPONSE
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY COMMITTEE COMMITTEE OFFICE, HOUSE OF COMMONS 7 Millbank, London SW1P 3JA Tel. Nos. 020 7219 2793-2794 (Fax. No. - 0896) email: [email protected] PRESS NOTICE No.20 of Session 2004-05 27 January 2005 PUBLICATION OF GOVERNMENT RESPONSE The Science and Technology Committee will publish its Third Special Report of Session 2004-05, Responses to the Committee's Tenth Report, Session 2003-04, Scientific Publications: Free for all?: Responses to the Committee's 14th Report of Session 2003-04 (HC 249) at 11.00am on Tuesday 1 February 2005 without embargoed copies. Copies of the Report will be available for collection in reception at 7 Millbank from the time of publication. Copies of the Report can also be obtained from TSO outlets and from the Parliamentary Bookshop, 12 Bridge Street, Parliament Square, London SW1A 2JX (020 7219 3890) by quoting the appropriate HC number. The text of the Reports will also be available via the Committee=s internet homepage: www.parliament.uk/s&tcom For further information please call Ana Ferreira, on 020 7219 2793. Previous press notices and publications are available on our website. Notes to editors: * Under the terms of Standing Order No. 152 the Science and Technology Committee is empowered to examine the "expenditure, policy and administration of the Office of Science and Technology and its associated public bodies". The Committee was appointed on 12 November 2001. * The Committee's inquiry into Scientific Publications was announced on 10 December 2003 in Press Notice 3 of Session 2003-04. The Committee took evidence from Blackwell Publishing, John Wiley & Sons, Nature Publishing Group and Reed Elsevier on 1 March 2004; Oxford University Press, the Institute of Physics Publishing, the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers, BioMed Central, Public Library of Science and Axiope on 8 March 2004; the British Library, the Joint Information Systems Committee, Cambridge University Library, the University of Hertfordshire and a panel of academics on 21 April 2004; and the Department of Trade and Industry/the Office of Science and Technology, the Higher Education Funding Council for England and Research Councils UK on 5 May 2004. * The Committee published its findings as the Tenth Report of Session 2003-04, Scientific Publications: Free for all? (HC 399), on Tuesday 20 July 2004. * The Committee published a second Report alongside the Government Response and responses from the Joint Information Systems Committee, RCUK, the Office of Fair Trading, the Society of College, National and University Libraries/the Consortium of University Research Libraries and the Securing a Hybrid Environment for Research Preservation and Access project as the Fourteenth Report of Session 2003-04, Responses to the Committee's Tenth Report, Session 2003-04, Scientific Publications: Free for all? (HC 1200), on Monday 8 November 2004. * This Report contains the Government Response to HC 1200, as well as a separate response from the Office of Fair Trading. Membership of the Committee Dr Ian Gibson (Lab, Norwich North) (Chairman) Mr Tony McWalter (Lab, Hemel Hempstead) Paul Farrelly (Lab, Newcastle-under-Lyme) Dr Andrew Murrison (Con, Westbury) Dr Evan Harris (Lib Dem, Oxford West & Abingdon) Geraldine Smith (Lab, Morecambe and Lunesdale) Kate Hoey (Lab, Vauxhall) Bob Spink (Con, Castle Point) Dr Brian Iddon (Lab, Bolton South East) Dr Desmond Turner (Lab, Brighton Kemptown) Mr Robert Key (Con, Salisbury) -------------------------------------------------------- UK Parliament Disclaimer: This e-mail is confidential to the intended recipient. If you have received it in error, please notify the sender and delete it from your system. Any unauthorised use, disclosure, or copying is not permitted. This e-mail has been checked for viruses, but no liability is accepted for any damage caused by any virus transmitted by this e-mail. --------------------------------------------------------
