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- From: Howard Flack <Howard.Flack@cryst.unige.ch>
- Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2001 15:04:49 +0100 (BST)
This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --Boundary_(ID_vUr72SYfnKKKia+sZn7teg) Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit -- Howard Flack http://www.unige.ch/crystal/ahdf/Howard.Flack.html Laboratoire de Cristallographie Phone: 41 (22) 702 62 49 24 quai Ernest-Ansermet mailto:Howard.Flack@cryst.unige.ch CH-1211 Geneva 4, Switzerland Fax: 41 (22) 702 61 08 --Boundary_(ID_vUr72SYfnKKKia+sZn7teg) Content-type: message/rfc822 Return-path: <owner-icsti-l@DTIC.MIL> Received: from gate.unige.ch ([129.194.8.77]) by mbx.unige.ch (PMDF V6.0-24 #44959) with ESMTP id <0GCC00C0ET5AW8@mbx.unige.ch> for flack@mail.cryst.unige.ch (ORCPT howard.flack@CRYST.UNIGE.CH); Wed, 25 Apr 2001 17:17:34 +0200 (MEST) Received: from DIRECTORY-DAEMON.gate.unige.ch by gate.unige.ch (PMDF V6.0-24 #44959) id <0GCC00K01T5ABB@gate.unige.ch> for flack@mail.cryst.unige.ch (ORCPT howard.flack@CRYST.UNIGE.CH); Wed, 25 Apr 2001 17:17:34 +0200 (MEST) Received: from mails.dtic.mil (mails.dtic.mil [131.84.1.19]) by gate.unige.ch (PMDF V6.0-24 #44959) with ESMTP id <0GCC00JAHT59V7@gate.unige.ch> for howard.flack@CRYST.UNIGE.CH; Wed, 25 Apr 2001 17:17:34 +0200 (MEST) Received: from list.dtic.mil (list.dtic.mil [131.84.105.11]) by mails.dtic.mil (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.3/990419cac) with ESMTP id LAA11674; Wed, 25 Apr 2001 11:17:19 -0400 (EDT) Received: from list (list.dtic.mil [172.16.105.11]) by list.dtic.mil (8.9.3+Sun/1.0) with ESMTP id LAA15003; Wed, 25 Apr 2001 11:16:56 -0400 (EDT) Received: from DTIC.MIL by DTIC.MIL (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 1.8d) with spool id 46149 for ICSTI-L@DTIC.MIL; Wed, 25 Apr 2001 11:16:56 -0400 Received: from mails.dtic.mil (mails.dtic.mil [131.84.1.19]) by list.dtic.mil (8.9.3+Sun/1.0) with ESMTP id KAA11853 for <icsti-l@list.dtic.mil>; Wed, 25 Apr 2001 10:06:04 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mail.nlm.nih.gov (mail.nlm.nih.gov [130.14.123.59]) by mails.dtic.mil (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.3/990419cac) with SMTP id KAA03303 for <ICSTI-L@DTIC.MIL>; Wed, 25 Apr 2001 10:06:04 -0400 (EDT) Received: from GWIADOM3-Message_Server by mail.nlm.nih.gov with Novell_GroupWise; Wed, 25 Apr 2001 10:00:59 -0400 Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2001 10:00:26 -0400 From: Kent Smith <SMITHK@MAIL.NLM.NIH.GOV> Subject: Re: Back Issues of Science to be Freely Available Sender: ICSTI-L list <ICSTI-L@DTIC.MIL> Approved-by: crandall@DTIC.MIL To: ICSTI-L@DTIC.MIL Reply-to: ICSTI-L list <ICSTI-L@DTIC.MIL> Message-id: <sae6a05b.056@mail.nlm.nih.gov> MIME-version: 1.0 X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by list.dtic.mil id KAA11854 X-Mailer: Novell GroupWise Internet Agent 5.5.3.1 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 8bit Content-disposition: inline X-Mozilla-Status2: 00000000 This is simply Kennedy's way of avoiding putting Science up on PubMed Central which many in the community are encouraging--Our view is there are many repositories and NLM's PMC is just one of them, not the only one. This debate has been in Science over the past few issues--Kent >>> Gailhodge@aol.com 04/25/01 9:06:56 AM >>> I thought some of you might be interested in this message from Don Kennedy of Science regarding its new policy of providing information free via the Web. I apologize for the double posting and for duplicating information for those who are on the AAAS list. -- Gail --------------- To AAAS Members: As most of you know, Science - through revenue from advertising and subscriptions - helps to support a wide range of Association activities. These include strong programs in science and public policy, science and law, international cooperation, K-12 education, and many others. And of course Science also serves the entire scientific community more directly, by providing, in addition to its research reports of new findings, news and perspectives that place that research in the context of human needs and public policy. As the publication of a nonprofit scientific society, we face obligations that sometimes present us with conflicts. AAAS is really two entities in one: the publisher of a world-class journal and a nonprofit mission- driven society with over 130,000 members. These two roles usually mesh, but sometimes AAAS faces internal conflict. We need adequate revenues to support the Association's programs, to serve our members, and to keep Science's world readership. At the same time, we have a responsibility to serve the broader scientific community and to respond to its changing needs. In a world in which electronic and print publications coexist, our financial picture is more complex and riskier. We have to balance the need for revenue from Science in print against the need to offer scientists everywhere the advantages that the Internet can provide. For example, we have executed site licenses for our online version with over 500 institutions in the United States and abroad. The list includes most of the major U.S. research universities as well as research- intensive companies and many international institutions. This means that students and fellows, faculty members, and research workers of all kinds in such places can download any paper-indeed, any part of Science. We knew all along that this policy would result in the loss of some personal subscriptions, and it has. Yet we continue because we believe it is part of a larger service obligation that comes to us because we are a nonprofit organization. As of April 23, 2001, we have made our back research content freely available 12 months after initial publication. By taking this step, we are responding to strong representations from the scientific community. Yet this move may involve economic risks for us, through loss of subscriptions, posing another potential threat to the Association programs we support. There is no immediate answer to this dilemma, which in one respect we welcome because it testifies to the significance of our journal to the community we serve. It is important, however, for you to appreciate the tradeoffs involved, because you are both subscribers to Science and members of the Association. One way in which you can help resolve the problem is through loyalty to the print version. When the time for renewal comes, we hope you will consider-in addition to the convenience and the aesthetic advantages of Science in print-that you are supporting a broader set of services that it provides to you and your fellow scientists. Sincerely, Don Kennedy Science's Editor-in-Chief --Boundary_(ID_vUr72SYfnKKKia+sZn7teg)--
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