[Open-access] Science 2.0 position papers

Wed Dec 3 15:13:12 UTC 2014

Dear Peter and Pierre-Carl:

Thanks very much for telling the rest of us about the EU initiative on open
science and bringing to our notice the position papers of many
institutions.

We in India are still trying hard to get our Government (agencies funding
scientific research) formulate OA policies. But we hope to catch up with
you soon!

Regards.

Arun

On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 8:16 PM, Peter Murray-Rust <pm286 at cam.ac.uk> wrote:

> Many thanks,
>
>
>
> On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 1:56 PM, Pierre-Carl Langlais <
> pierrecarl.langlais at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>  Hi everyone,
>>
>> The EU program Science 2.0 leads a consultation on the future of
>> scientific research. It has published several interesting responses
>> <http://scienceintransition.eu/position-papers/> from leading european
>> public institutions, publishers, and organisations.
>>
>> There is not much novelties in the documents per se. For instance, the
>> response
>> <https://scienceintransition.files.wordpress.com/2014/10/reed-elsevier.pdf>
>> of Elsevier merely reiterates its strong objections regarding legal
>> intervention on Open Access and Text and Data Mining.
>>
>> Thanks for highlighting this. OKFN, and also TheContentMine, have
> publicly opposed Elsevier's "arguments" at, for example, Licences for
> Europe.
>
> Nevertheless, juding from the high proportion of pro-OA responses, the
>> balance of power seems to shift at the expense of Elsevier & co (which, not
>> long ago, were in a position to dictate the main EU process on TDM,
>> Licences for Europe).
>>
>
> Constant, rational, strong advocacy will win out. The rest of Europe is
> looking to the UK/Hargreaves  legislation and how it will improve science
> and generate wealth. We in UK are committed to showing the value.
>
> As it's legal to carry out non-commercial research in the UK using TDM
> *without* publishers' consent, contentmine.org would be very interested
> in non-UK research where we can help, non-commercially, with the TDM aspect
> of the research.
>
>
>
> --
> Peter Murray-Rust
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> Unilever Centre, Dep. Of Chemistry
> University of Cambridge
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