[Open-access] The OA Interviews: Ian Gibson, former Chairman of the UK House of Commons Science & Technology Committee

Tue Oct 30 19:34:54 UTC 2012

On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 10:56 AM, Richard Poynder <
ricky at richardpoynder.co.uk> wrote:

> Like all successful movements, Open Access (OA) has experienced a number
> of milestone events. Amongst the more significant of these were the
> creation of the physics preprint repository arXiv in 1991, the 1994
> Subversive Proposal, the 2002 Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI), and
> the introduction in 2005 of the first  Open Access Policy of the US
> National Institutes of Health (NIH).****
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> However, one of the more interesting but less celebrated events in the
> history of OA is surely the 2004 Inquiry into scientific publication
> conducted by the UK House of Commons Science & Technology Committee. The
> inquiry seems particularly noteworthy in the wake of this year’s
> controversial Finch Report, and the new OA policy that Research Councils UK
> (RCUK) announced in response ...****
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> ... Given the very different conclusions that the Finch Committee had
> reached earlier this year, I became keen to find out more about the origins
> and the process of the 2004 Inquiry. So I contacted Dr Ian Gibson, the then
> Chairman of the Science & Technology Select Committee, and Labour MP for
> Norwich North. To my delight, he agreed to do an interview with me ...****
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> More here: ****
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> http://poynder.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/the-oa-interviews-ian-gibson-former.html
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I can recommend in-depth reading of Ian's chairing of the Select Committee.
He pulled no punches and it is one of the most forceful public dialogues in
Open Access

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Peter Murray-Rust
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