[A2k] Proposals on Scholarly publishing

[James Love]

These are just a place holder for an important topic, based upon
proposals by MAR and others.

Proposals on Scholarly publishing

1.=09Authors and readers of scholarly and scientific works have a
common interest in the broad dissemination and wide sharing of works.

2.=09Concentration of ownership of scholarly and scientific publishing
presents risks and dangers to authors and readers, in terms of high
prices, lack of diversity of content, and undue influence on
discourse involving scientific, cultural, professional and political
life.

3.=09Authors and readers of scholarly and scientific works oppose
government imposed censorship and other restrictions on the freedom
of opinion and expression; including the freedom to hold opinions
without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and
ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.

4.=09Authors and readers are are harmed by excessive prices for
scholarly and scientific works.

5.=09Acknowledging the profound impact the Internet has on the conduct
of scientific research and the benefits of research being shared as
widely as possible, authors and readers of scholarly and scientific
works and consumers agree that:

6.=09Authors should retain the right to make their work available in a
non-commercial open digital archive on the World Wide Web [such as
the National Institutes of Health=92s PubMed Central or an
institution=92s open digital archive] or to make copies of their
article for use in the classes they teach.

7.=09Authors should retain:

8.=09The rights to reproduce, distribute, publicly perform,and publicly
display the Article in any medium for non-commercial purposes;

9.=09the right to prepare derivative works from the Article; and

10.=09the right to authorize others to make any non-commercial use of
the Article so long as the author receives credit as author and the
journal in which the Article has been published is cited as the
source of first publication of the Article.

11.=09Authors/Researchers funded by governments should submit an
electronic version of their final, peer-reviewed manuscript to a
publicly available online archive upon acceptance for publication in
a journal.

12.=09Authors, researchers and readers of scientific works express
their support for the following:

Association of College & Research Libraries (ACRL) Principles and
Strategies for the Reform of Scholarly Communication, August 28,
2003, http://www.ala.org

Bethesda Statement on Open Access Publishing, June 20, 2003, http://
www.earlham.edu/~peters

Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and
Humanities, October 22, 2003, http://www.zim.mpg.de/openaccess-berlin

The Budapest Open Access Initiative, http://www.soros.org/openaccess/
read.shtml

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
Declaration on Access to Research Data From Public Funding, January
30, 2004, http://www.oecd.org

The International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions
(IFLA) released the IFLA Statement on Open Access to Scholarly
Literature and Research Documentation, February 24, 2004.  http://
www.ifla.org

13.  Authors, researchers and readers of scholarly and scientific
works call upon governments, professional societies, publishers and
others to explore new business models, public subsidies and private
incentives to support professional editing and publishing services
that do not rely upon high prices for access to works.