On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 1:59 AM, Stevan Harnad <[email protected]> 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-infor
mation-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
* Open Response to RFI on Public Access to Peer-Reviewed Publications
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.Â
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 on this topic, open access and
federally funded research, which should be available sometime this week.
  Happy New Open Access Year !
    Luis
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Peter Murray-Rust
Reader in Molecular Informatics
Unilever Centre, Dep. Of Chemistry
University of Cambridge
CB2 1EW, UK
+44-1223-763069
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