[Open-access] [open-science] House of Lords (UK) Open Access - submissions invited

Sat Jan 12 11:56:58 UTC 2013

On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 11:35 AM, Mike Taylor <mike at indexdata.com> wrote:

> I have sent my own response, and posted it here for anyone who's
> interested:
>
> http://svpow.com/2013/01/12/my-submission-to-the-house-of-lords-science-and-technology-committee/
>
>
This is an outstanding document and says 80% of what I would have said.

Rather than repeat it I suggest we create a response from the
researchers/readers point of view stressing those not employed in UK
universities (i.e. mainly the scholarly poor). I think we can reasonably
argue that Open public scientific research is a massive public good and
that by opening our research we are contributing to the welfare and
prosperity of those outside Britain as well as in it. I suspect that this
will have particular appeal to the Lords. To that extent I think we could
reasonably  take the approach:
* OKF is a global movement (with UK origins)
* we have collected significant experience and anecdotal evidence through
our activities
* this is almost certainly a very small proportion of the actual desire for
scholarly information
* in this area Britain's actions are a major beacon for the rest of the
world.

P.

If anything I said in there is at all useful towards a group response,
> please feel free to use it.
>
> -- Mike.
>
>
>
> On 11 January 2013 12:10, Mike Taylor <mike at indexdata.com> wrote:
>
>> By all means, yes. But what's CRUCIAL is that we send our individual
>> responses as soon as possible, and don't let that get held up or
>> derailed by a potentially long-winded process of putting together one
>> we can all sign up to.
>>
>> -- Mike.
>>
>>
>> On 11 January 2013 11:20, Peter Murray-Rust <pm286 at cam.ac.uk> wrote:
>> > Should we try to get a response together
>> >
>> > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> > From: Alma Swan <a.swan at talk21.com>
>> > Date: Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 8:48 AM
>> > Subject: [GOAL] Re: [SCHOLCOMM] New Year's challenge for repository
>> > developers and managers: awesome cross-search
>> > To: "Global Open Access List (Successor of AmSci)" <goal at eprints.org>,
>> SPARC
>> > Open Access Forum <SPARC-OAForum at arl.org>
>> >
>> >
>> > The UK's House of Lords (upper chamber of Parliament) Science &
>> Technology
>> > Committee is conducting an enquiry into Open Access. Written
>> submissions are
>> > welcome. Individuals and organisations are invited to give their views
>> on
>> > the actions taken by Government and RCUK following publication of the
>> Finch
>> > report.
>> >
>> > The HoL has issued guidance
>> > <
>> http://www.openscholarship.org/jcms/c_7334/hol-guidance-notes-open-access-enquiry
>> >
>> > on how to make written submissions.
>> >
>> > In particular, there are four issues highlighted by the committee:
>> >
>> > support for universities in the form of funds to cover article
>> processing
>> > charges, and the response of universities and HEIs to these efforts
>> > embargo periods for articles published under the Green model
>> > engagement with publishers, universities, learned societies and other
>> > stakeholders in the development of research council Open Access
>> policies and
>> > guidance
>> > challenges and concerns raised by the scientific and publishing
>> communities,
>> > and how these have been addressed
>> >
>> >
>> > The deadline is 18th January.
>> >
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>> > http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > --
>> > Peter Murray-Rust
>> > Reader in Molecular Informatics
>> > Unilever Centre, Dep. Of Chemistry
>> > University of Cambridge
>> > CB2 1EW, UK
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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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