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- From: Pete Strickland <ps@iucr.org>
- Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2003 22:22:19 +0100 (BST)
********************************************************* Subject: ACS Material on Open Access There is some ACS material on Open Access at http://www.chemistry.org/portal/a/c/s/1/feature_pol.html?id=c373e9f703c70224 8f6a4fd8fe800100 ********************************************************* Subject: Apropos the ACS material on Open Access The actual article on Science Publishing is at: http://www.chemistry.org/portal/a/c/s/1/feature_pol.html? id=c373e9f703c702248f6a4fd8fe800100 It is an article by Brian Dougherty of ACS reprinted from the August 2003 edition of Capitol Connection. It comments on the proposal by Representative Martin Sabo (D-MN) to introduce legislation (H.R. 2613) in conjunction with the PLoS [Public Library of Science] campaign that would put the results of scientific research "substantially funded by the federal government" into the public domain. The bill would achieve this by requiring scientists to forgo copyright protection for such work. This proposal and others from the PloS have received a lot of publicity in the US recently. They will form part of the discussions at the forthcoming ICSTI Meeting in Paris on January 15 and 16 2004 where we will be looking broadly at the 'economic models' of science publishing in the light of new technologies, new pressures on scientists such as those implied above and the moves away from the 'traditional' methods of submission > peer review > publication in a subscription based journal. We hope to have a broad discussion with representatives from the various interests. The meeting will be a follow-on from our very succesful meeting of last January but this time we want to concentrate on the economic implications of the changes, not just the dollars or euros and cents aspects but what is the likely future of science publishing in the light of the economic alterations in the system. Note the dates - Thursday January 15 and Friday January 16 in Paris. More details later. ********************************************************* Subject: Article on Economics of Open Access At: http://www.biomedcentral.com/news/20030822/02 There is an article on the Economics of Open Acess by By Catherine Zandonella. It is based on recent activities in the USA; an Editorial in the New York Times, a proposed law on access to the results of Federally funded research and a tv advert by the Public Library of Science. ********************************************************* Subject: More on Open Access viability >From NFAIS ENotes, with thanks to Jill O'Neill. "Sabo, SOAF, SOAN and More" Cites and Insights, September 2003 Walt Crawford provides a superior overview of the Open Access debate of recent weeks in his September 2003 issue of Cites and Insights. Down load the PDF file at: http://cites.boisestate.edu/civ3i11.pdf and go directly to pages 9-17. Crawford, who has stated serious reservations about the viability of Open Access, looks at the Sabo Bill and considers the various criticisms of the bill put forward by the publishing community. His approach is even-handed and treats both sides of the issue fairly. (The Sabo bill is H.R. 2613, and is entitled the Public Access to Science Act - see E-Notes August 12, 2003 for a brief description of the proposed legislation). ********************************************************* Subject: Agreement on Permanent Availability by the US Govt. Agreement Ensures Permanent Public Online Access to Government Information By Miriam A. Drake Public Printer, Bruce R. James, and Archivist of the United States, John W. Carlin, announced an agreement that will enable the Government Printing Office (GPO) and the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) to ensure free and permanent access to more than 250,000 federal government titles available through GPO Access. These titles include Congressional Record, Federal Register, Code of Federal Regulations, U. S. Code, and the publications of many federal agencies. GPO Access is available to anyone who uses the Internet. It provides quick and easy access to important government information. People lacking Internet access may use GPO Access at any one of the more than1,200 depository libraries, see http://www.infotoday.com/newsbreaks/nb030825-1.shtml ********************************************************* Subject: Open Source meeting cancelled A meeting which WIPO (The World Intellectual Property Organisation) intended to hold on the principle of 'open' research and development and its implications - typically the Human Genome Project - has had to be cancelled, because of lobbying by large IPR interests, especially in the software area, according to WIPO. There is a discussion on the cancellation in the latest edition of Nature at: http://www.cptech.org/ip/wipo/20030828-Nature-WIPO.pdf ********************************************************* Subject: EBLIDA reservations about new EU Directive EBLIDA, the European Bureau of Library, Information and Documentatation Associations has expressed reservations concerning the proposed EU Directive on measures and procedures to ensure the enforcement of intellectual property. I drew attention to this proposal in a news message on August 12. The proposal will require EU Member States to implement common legislation to prohibit tampering with rights protection equipment or software facilities and require them to offer the same protection to all other EU states. The draft can be consulted at: http://europa.eu.int/eur-lex/en/com/pdf/2003/com2003_0046en01.pdf 'This proposal,' writes María Pía González Pereira, Director of EBLIDA, 'was issued by the European Commission on the 30 January 2003 and is now at the European Parliament under the Co-decision procedure. The text of the Directive presents some points in which EBLIDA has already expressed our concerns to the European Institutions.' 'It is important to raise awareness on the potential impact of this newly proposed legislation on our community' ********************************************************* Subject: Another protest at a proposed EU action At this URL: http://insight.zdnet.co.uk/software/developer/0,39020469,39115921,00.htm You will find a background article on a proposal under discussion by the European Parliament to effectively permit software to be patented in all EU Member States. There is a big groundswell of protest to the proposal - from people such as those who developed Linux but also from scientists and others who maintain they will have to pay license fees to use computer certain routines in their work. In a recent US case Microsoft was ordered to pay over $500m to a one person U of Californaia spin-off company with 100 shareholders (mostly family members of the founder), for infringing the company's IPR in Internet Explorer. EU protestors fear similar cases in Europe may effect a) the development of software and b) small businesses who do the development. The Parliament was due to vote today on the proposal but the vote seems to have been postpned until later this month. ********************************************************* Subject: A digital rescue >From Current Cites: Domesday Redux: The Rescue of the BBC Domesday Project Videodiscs" [21]Ariadne (36) (July 2003) (http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue36/tna/). - This fascinating article describes how a team of UK preservationists rescued the BBC Domesday videodiscs from certain obsolescence. The modern-day [22]Domesday Project aimed to capture a snapshot of life in Britain in 1986, on a pair of videodiscs, as a celebration of the 900th anniversay of the original [23]Domesday Book of William the Conqueror. Videodiscs are now an anachronism, but these discs were rescued just in time, and recreated using modern technologies. The story is interesting, and is one of the first of many we will experience over the years, as we rescue important data from the death grip of obsolete technologies. ********************************************************* -- Best wishes Peter Strickland Managing Editor IUCr Journals ---------------------------------------------------------------------- IUCr Editorial Office, 5 Abbey Square, Chester CH1 2HU, England Phone: 44 1244 342878 Fax: 44 1244 314888 Email: ps@iucr.org Ftp: ftp.iucr.org WWW: http://journals.iucr.org/ NEWSFLASH: Complete text of all IUCr journals back to 1948 now online! Visit Crystallography Journals Online for more details
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