[open-science] Fwd: [GOAL] {Disarmed} Access to Federally Funded Publications

[Peter Murray-Rust]

Apologies if already cross posted. I think OKF could/should have a presence
at the meetings, especially on  re-use of content

P.

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From: Michael Carroll <mcarroll at wcl.american.edu>
Date: Tue, May 7, 2013 at 6:02 PM
Subject: [GOAL] {Disarmed} Access to Federally Funded Publications
To: "Global Open Access List (Successor of AmSci)" <goal at eprints.org>
Cc: LibLicense-L Discussion Forum <LIBLICENSE-L at listserv.crl.edu>


Dear all,****

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     As a reminder, tomorrow is the closing date for registering to
participate in person or remotely in the National Academy of Sciences
meeting on the White House directive for all federally funded journal
articles to be made publicly accessible.
http://sites.nationalacademies.org/DBASSE/CurrentProjects/DBASSE_082378#.UYkwuUp48mN
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     Topics to consider commenting on are the appropriate embargo period
and what reuse rights users should have.  The agency plans have to enable
users to read, download and “analyze” the publications.  I believe
“analyze” means analyze computationally, which means enabling bulk download
for text mining purposes.  If others agree, that would be a useful point to
convey.****

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    In addition, I’m going to argue that the agencies should permit
republication of publicly accessible manuscripts on other websites.  As a
fallback, I think at a minimum institutional repositories should have the
rights to mirror the publicly accessible versions of the articles.  Even if
your repository would not currently have interest in doing so, think of
this as an insurance policy in the case that funding for public access
repositories dries up in the future.  If mirroring rights are part of the
plan, then the community can work together to maintain public access.
Again, if you agree, that would be a useful point to make as well.****

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Best,****

Mike****

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Michael W. Carroll****

Professor of Law and Director, ****

Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property****

American University, Washington College of Law****

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Research papers:
http://works.bepress.com/michael_carroll/<http://law.bepress.com/michael_carroll/>
http://ssrn.com/author=330326
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See also www.creativecommons.org****

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Peter Murray-Rust
Reader in Molecular Informatics
Unilever Centre, Dep. Of Chemistry
University of Cambridge
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