[okfn-br] Fwd: [BOAI] Heather Joseph on the state of Open Access: Where are we, what still needs to be done?

[João Guilherme Camargo]

Carolina,

Isso foi muito esclarecedor para mim! Obrigado por repassar!

João.


2013/7/13 Carolina <carolina.rossini em gmail.com>

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> *From:* "Richard Poynder" <ricky em richardpoynder.co.uk>
> *Date:* July 13, 2013, 5:54:05 AM EDT
> *To:* <boai-forum em ecs.soton.ac.uk>
> *Subject:* *[BOAI]  Heather Joseph on the state of Open Access: Where are
> we, what still needs to be done?*
> *Reply-To:* boai-forum em ecs.soton.ac.uk
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> The fourth Q&A in a series exploring the current state of Open Access has
> been published. On this occasion the questions are answered by Heather
> Joseph <http://www.sparc.arl.org/about/staff/joseph.shtml>. ****
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> A former journal publisher, Joseph has in her time worked for both
> Elsevier and the American Society for Cell Biology. In 2005, however, she
> changed direction and became Executive Director for the Scholarly
> Publishing & Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC<http://www.sparc.arl.org/about/staff/joseph.shtml>),
> an alliance of academic and research libraries created in 1998 by the
> Association of Research Libraries. SPARC’s original mission<http://www.dlib.org/dlib/may00/johnson/05johnson.html>was to “use libraries’ buying power to nurture the creation of
> high-quality, low-priced publication outlets for peer-reviewed scientific,
> technical, and medical research.”****
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> Subsequently SPARC also changed direction, becoming an OA advocacy group.
> And under Joseph’s able leadership SPARC has proved extremely effective at
> making the case for OA, and persuading researchers, institutions, funders
> and governments to embrace OA. In particular, Joseph led SPARC’s efforts to
> secure the US National Institutes of Health Public Access Policy<http://publicaccess.nih.gov/>,
> and the recent White House Directive on Public Access to the Results of
> Publicly Funded Research<http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2013/02/22/expanding-public-access-results-federally-funded-research>
> .****
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> In May last year<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Access2Research_Founders.JPG>,
> for instance, Joseph — along with OA advocates John Wilbanks<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Wilbanks>and Michael
> Carroll <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_W._Carroll>, and publisher Mike
> Rossner <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Rossner> — met with John
> Holdren <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Holdren> and Mike Stebbins<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Stebbins>of the US Office of Science and Technology Policy (
> OSPT <http://www.whitehouse.gov/administration/eop/ostp>). As a follow-up
> to the meeting they organised a White House petition<https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/require-free-access-over-internet-scientific-journal-articles-arising-taxpayer-funded-research/wDX82FLQ>calling for “free access over the Internet to scientific journal articles
> arising from taxpayer-funded research”. The petition quickly attracted the
> requisite 25,000 signatures needed to trigger a response from the
> government, which came this February in the shape of the White House
> Memorandum<http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/microsites/ostp/ostp_public_access_memo_2013.pdf>
> .****
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> Importantly, the Memorandum directs “each Federal agency with over $100
> million in annual conduct of research and development expenditures to
> develop a plan to support increased public access to the results of
> research funded by the Federal Government”.****
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> ** **
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> But for me there is no better evidence of the efficacy of SPARC’s
> activities than the contents of an exchange I had a couple of years ago
> with an employee of one of the larger traditional scholarly publishers.
> When I suggested that perhaps publishers ought to stop lobbying against OA
> and learn to love it, my interlocutor’s face expressed a complicated mix of
> emotions — including exasperation and muted anger, but also (I felt) some
> admiration for the OA movement. He replied, “It’s not just publishers who
> are lobbying you know.” Then a few seconds later he added, “I’ll tell you
> what, if you can get SPARC to stop lobbying against us we will stop
> lobbying against Open Access.”****
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> ** **
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> Since then the OA movement has gone from strength to strength, in what has
> become a classic David and Goliath contest — a smallish group of
> impecunious but tireless OA advocates lined up against an army of
> well-heeled corporations determined to stop them. ****
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> ** **
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> But how things will end we do not yet know. What is certain, as Joseph
> concedes, is that “much still needs to be done” before the OA movement can
> claim to have succeeded in its aims. ****
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> Earlier contributors to this series include palaeontologist Mike Taylor<http://poynder.blogspot.pt/2013/07/open-access-where-are-we-what-still.html>,
> cognitive scientist Stevan Harnad<http://poynder.blogspot.co.uk/2013/07/where-are-we-what-still-needs-to-be.html>,
> and former librarian Fred Friend<http://poynder.blogspot.co.uk/2013/07/fred-friend-on-state-of-open-access.html>.
> ****
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> Joseph’s Q&A can be read here:****
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> http://poynder.blogspot.in/2013/07/heather-joseph-on-state-of-open-access.html
> ****
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