[A2k] Suber comments on scientific and scholarly research section

[James Love]

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From: Peter Suber <peters@earlham.edu>
Date: June 17, 2006 2:55:54 PM EDT
To: James Love <james.love@cptech.org>

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Jamie:  Here's a start.  I can elaborate on each point, but my
impression from other submission is that short and sweet is better
for this document.

1.  Researchers should either publish their results in open-access
journals or deposit copies of their results in open-access repositories.

2.  Agencies and foundations that fund research should require open
access to the research they fund.  Public (governmental) agencies in
particular should require open access to publicly-funded research.
This can be done through open-access repositories so that authors may
continue to publish in the journals of their choice.

3.  Universities, laboratories, and research centers should launch
open-access institutional repositories and use them to capture and
disseminate their research output.  A mandate to deposit copies of
peer-reviewed articles in the institutional repository still allows
authors to publish in the journals of their choice.

4.  Scientific and scholarly journals should allow authors to deposit
the final version of their peer-reviewed manuscript, or the published
article, in an open-access repository.  (70% of non-open-access
journals already permit this.)

      Best,
      Peter




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