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[I recently read from a pseudo-leftist french (Charly hebdo, a journal
known for its pro-NATO positions during 1999 war against YU) paper that
SOROS is "promoting" a campaign for open access to scientific knowledge.
this campaign is clearly targetting third world countries and their
scientists who hardly can access scientific literature. I am sure
someone among the readers of this list will be interested in
investigating the matter. SOROS, a CIA man , is not doing this just for
charity...It really deserves close investigation]
Kiosk at chiffonrouge
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Budapest Open Access Initiative
The Budapest Open Access Initiative arises from a small but lively
meeting convened in Budapest by the Open Society Institute (OSI) on
December 1-2, 2001. The purpose of the meeting was to accelerate
progress in the international effort to make research articles in all
academic fields freely available on the internet. The participants
represented many points of view, many academic disciplines, and many
nations, and had experience with many of the ongoing initiatives that
make up the open access movement. In Budapest they explored how the
separate initiatives could work together to achieve broader, deeper, and
faster success. They explored the most effective and affordable
strategies for serving the interests of research, researchers, and the
institutions and societies that support research. Finally, they explored
how OSI and other foundations could use their resources most
productively to aid the transition to open access and to make
open-access publishing economically self-sustaining. The result is the
Budapest Open Access Initiative. It is at once a statement of principle,
a statement of strategy, and a statement of commitment.
The initiative has been signed by the Budapest participants and a
growing number of individuals and organizations from around the world
who represent researchers, universities, laboratories, libraries,
foundations, journals, publishers, learned societies, and kindred
open-access initiatives. We invite the signatures, support, and
participation of the entire world scientific and scholarly community.
E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
What You Can Do To Help
Scientists, Scholars, and Researchers
Universities and Laboratories
Libraries
Journals and Publishers
Foundations and Research Funding Agencies
Learned Societies and Professional Associations
Governments
Citizens
To help understand the recommendations below, here are two sections from
the initiative.
Which literature? "The literature that should be freely accessible
online is that which scholars give to the world without expectation of
payment. Primarily, this category encompasses their peer-reviewed
journal articles, but it also includes any unreviewed preprints that
they might wish to put online for comment or to alert colleagues to
important research findings."
How accessible? "There are many degrees and kinds of wider and easier
access to this literature. By 'open access' to this literature, we mean
its free availability on the public internet, permitting any users to
read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full
texts of these articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to
software, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without financial,
legal, or technical barriers other than those inseparable from gaining
access to the internet itself. The only constraint on reproduction and
distribution, and the only role for copyright in this domain, should be
to give authors control over the integrity of their work and the right
to be properly acknowledged and cited."
In addition to everything else you could do to help open access, please
sign on to the Budapest Open Access Initiative.
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Scientists, Scholars, and Researchers
I. Self-Archiving:
* Self-archive your papers and encourage your colleagues to do so. If
your discipline does not have an archive compliant with the Open
Archives Initiative (OAI), then encourage your university or research
center to create an institutional archive. There is now free software to
make this easier (see CalTech's review of the software in SPARC e-news).
II. Alternative Journals:
* Whenever possible, publish your papers in journals that provide open
access to all the articles they publish.
* If no such journals exist in your field, then help launch new journals
committed to open access. Journal software now exists to reduce costs by
automating the functions of publishing online journals.
* Encourage existing journals to offer open access to their contents.
For example, serve as editor or reviewer only for journals committed to
open access.
* If you withdraw your services as editor or reviewer from a journal
because of its restrictive access policies, let it know why you are
doing so and consider writing an open letter to let the wider world
know. (Here are some examples of other open letters.)
* Ask the foundation funding your research, or your university, to
provide the funds to cover the costs, if any, of publishing your work
in an open access journal.
III. Other Measures:
* If you must publish in journals that do not provide open access, ask
to retain the copyright to your work and offer in its place the right of
first print and electronic publication. If the journal will not agree to
this, ask at least for the right to self-archive your work in an
OAI-compliant archive. (If the journal provides open access, there is no
harm in transferring copyright to it, if this is what it wants.)
* Make sure the learned societies and professional associations to which
you belong know about your commitment to open access. Serve on their
committees and governing boards.
* Create an index, database, or web list of the free online journals,
archives, and collections of scholarship in your discipline.
* Write opinion pieces supporting open access in any forum that will
accept them. Many scholarly journals publish letters to the editor. Some
disciplines publish newspapers and magazines.
* See the overview of the issues for university faculty (from Create
Change).
Universities and Laboratories
I. Self-Archiving:
* Create an OAI-compliant archive at your institution. There is now free
software to make this easy (see this review). Encourage your researchers
to deposit all their work in the archive and offer any assistance they
may need in doing so. Realize that this modest investment will enhance
the visibility and impact of research produced by the institution, help
researchers worldwide improve their access to research literature, and
eventually reduce your library's serials budget.
II. Alternative Journals:
* Provide funds to authors at your institution to cover the costs of
publishing in open access journals.
* Support scholars at your institution in launching new online journals
using your network server and secretarial staff.
III. Other Measures:
* Adopt a policy that in hiring and promotion you will give proper
weight to peer-reviewed publications regardless of their medium (print
or electronic) or their cost (priced or free). Let employees and job
candidates know about this policy.
Libraries
I. Self-Archiving:
* Offer to maintain the university archive at your institution. Help
faculty archive their past research papers, digitizing them if
necessary, and teach them how to archive their future papers.
II. Alternative Journals:
* Help open access journals launched at your institution become known to
other libraries, indexing services, potential funders, and potential
readers.
III. Other Measures:
* Join library consortia like SPARC to multiply your efforts and
publicize your support for free and affordable journals.
* Make sure that scholars at your institution know how to find open
access journals and archives in their fields, and make sure tools are
set up to allow them to efficiently access these publications.
* Monitor the scene. As open access journals proliferate, and as their
usage and impact grow, cancel over-priced journals that do not measure
up.
* See the overview of the issues for librarians (from Create Change).
Journals and Publishers
I. Self-Archiving:
* Encourage your authors to self-archive in OAI-compliant archives.
II. Alternative Journals:
* Experiment with new business models that provide open access to the
work that you publish.
* If you enhance your authors' basic texts with expensive add-ons,
consider offering open access to the basic texts and only charging for
access to the enhanced edition.
III. Other Measures:
* If you don't offer open access, at least let authors retain the
copyright to their works and only ask for the right of first print
and/or electronic publication.
* If you cannot yet afford to offer open access to your newest issues,
at least offer it after six months and for all back issues older than
that.
* If you are a journal editor whose publisher has adopted
audience-limiting access policies, declare independence and look for a
publisher more accommodating to your vision of open access. Here are
some examples of journals that have declared independence from their
publishers.
Foundations and Research Funding Agencies
I. Self-Archiving:
* Provide funds to universities to help create institutional Eprint
Archives for self-archiving and to provide the necessary technical and
logistical support filling and maintaining them.
* Require that those receiving your research grants agree to
self-archive
any resulting articles and/or to publish them in open access journals.
* Provide support for authors in poorer nations and institutions to
cover
the costs of self-archiving and/or publishing their work in open access
journals and archives.
II. Alternative Journals:
* Provide the funds to cover publication charges to meet the expenses of
open access journals.
* Let researchers with existing grants know that their funds can be used
to cover expenses of open access journals or archives, cr provide
supplemental funds to cover those expenses.
* Fund the creation of open access journals.
* Use your funds to help existing journals make the transition to open
access publishing.
* Allow your grants to be used for building endowments for open access
journals and archives. Endowed open access journals will not need to
seek further funding from any source.
III. Other Measures:
* Use your funds to help existing journals digitize their back issues,
provided they will then provide open access to them.
* Take steps to ensure that your research funds are not going to support
journals that actively oppose open access.
* Support groups of scientists and scholars in particular regions and
disciplines who are trying to achieve open access.
Learned Societies and Professional Associations
I. Self-Archiving:
* Support and promote central (discipline-based) self-archiving and
distributed (institution-based) self-archiving by your membership
II. Alternative Journals:
* Adopt a policy supporting open access journals and archives in your
field, encouraging researchers to publish in them.
* If you publish a scholarly journal, make it available to readers
online free of charge.
* Journal software now exists to reduce costs by automating many of the
common jobs needed to publish an online journal.
III. Other Measures:
* Encourage universities to give peer-reviewed online publications the
same weight as peer-reviewed print publications. (Here are some examples
of policies already adopted by societies and associations.)
Governments
I. Self-Archiving:
* As a condition of accepting a research grant, recipients should agree
to self-archive all resulting research articles and/or to publish them
in open access journals.
II. Alternative Journals:
* Adopt uniform legislation covering all government agencies that fund
research. Research grants should include funds to pay the fees that
might be charged by open access journals.
III. Other Measures:
* Retain copyright to articles based on government-funded research and
license the resulting works to the public domain to ensure permanent
open access.
Citizens
III. Other Measures:
* Let your government, and any universities, foundations, or
professional societies that you support, know that you support open
access to all scientific and scholarly literature.
* Demand that research funded by taxpayers be made available to the
public free of charge.
View Signatures
View the 1984 individuals and 118 organizations that have added their
names to the initiative. If you support open access too, please add your
name!
Find signatures that include: Search
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Organizations
Agence universitaire de la Francophonie - Programme 4 Paris
American Board of Sport Psychology New York
American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc. Washington, DC
Amethis Ltd Lausanne
Approche sociologique des médias Louvain-la-Neuve
Association des bibliothécaires français Paris
Association of Academic Health Services Libraries Seattle, WA
Association of Research Libraries Washington, DC
AsTeX Association Orléans
Australian Vice Chancellors Committee Canberra
Best of Science Paris
Biblioteca Centrale della Facoltà di Medicina e Chirurgia
dell'Università di Parma Parma
Bibliothèque de l'Université de Caen, section sciences CAEN
BioMed Central Ltd. London
Brown University Library Providence, Rhode Island
Canadian Association of Research Libraries/Association des bibliothèques
de recherche du Canada Ottawa
Cancer Cell International Aberdeen
Central European University Budapest
Centro Mimir - Atelier Multimediale Como
Cielo Institute; 486 Sunset Drive Asheville, NC 28804-3727
CogPrints (Eprints Archive) Southampton
Colectivo Mama Coca Bogota
Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC) Champaign
Conserve Africa International London
Cortex
Council of Australian University Librarians Canberra, ACT
Council of New Zealand University Librarians (CONZUL) Hamilton
e-Polymers Eindhoven
Economics Bulletin Champaign
Economics Education and Research Consortium, Russia and CIS Moscow
Education Policy Analysis Archives Tempe, Arizona
Education Review Tempe
EJournal Calgary
ephemera Coventry
Erasmus University Rotterdam Medical Library Rotterdam
Faculty of Humanities, University of Parma Parma
Firenze University Press Florence
Fonds québécois de la recherche sur la nature et les technologies
Québec
Food and Agriculture Organzation of the United Nations Rome
Forest Information Services Manassas, VA
FQS - Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung / Forum: Qualitative Social
Research Berlin
Fundamental Scientific Library of National Academy of Sciences of
Armenia Yerevan
Geometry and Topology Publications Coventry
Global Catalyst Foundation Redwood City, California
Greater Western Library Alliance Kansas City
H-Net: Humanities and Social Sciences OnLine East Lansing, Michigan
HYLE: International Journal for Philosophy of Chemistry Karlsruhe
INRA Animal Physiology Department Nouzilly
Institut National Polytechnique de Toulouse Libray TOULOUSE
International Consortium for the Advancement of Academic Publication
Athabasca
International Journal of Education & the Arts Tempe, Arizona
Laboratoire Virtuel de Phonétique Besançon
Library and Information System of Oldenburg University Oldenburg
Library of Congress Washington, DC
MathCD Paris/Orsay
MATRIX: The Center for the Humane Arts, Letters, and Social Sciences
Online, Michigan State University East Lansing
Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein
Institute) Golm
Max Planck Institute fpr Psychological Research Mùnchen
Medical Education Online E. Lansing
Medical Library Association Chicago
Medicina (journal) Kaunas
Moscow State University Moscow
multi-sciencepublishing co ltd brentwood
National Academy of Sciences of Belarus Minsk
National electronic Library for Health Birmingham
Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD)
Blacksburg, VA
Networks & Development Foundation Santo Domingo
NEW BALKAN POLITICS Skopje
Nueva Diplomacia D. F.
Open Society Institute New York
Open University Milton Keynes
Organization Studies Research Group, UAM-Iztapalapa México, D.F.
Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute of the RAS Saint-Petersburg
Philosophers' Imprint Ann Arbor
polylog. Forum for Intercultural Philosophizing Munich
Principia Cybernetica Project Brussels, Los Alamos
Progressive Intellectual Property Law Association Cleveland
Proyecto Ensayo Hispánico Athens
PsychoSports New York
Psycoloquy (open access journal) Southampton
Public Library of Science California
Public Sphere Project (Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility)
Seattle
Research Library of Chelyabinsk State University Chelyabinsk
RISQ Montréal
Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung Berlin
SCD Antilles-Guyane Schoelcher
SECTEC - SECRETARIA DE CIENCIA E TECNOLOGIA DE GOIAS goiania
Seminar fuer Geistesgeschichte und Philosophie der Renaissance (LMU
Muenchen (Munich university)) Muenchen
Sleep Research Online Los Angeles
Solviolence.org Dallas
SPARC (Scholarly Publishing & Academic Resources Coalition) Washington,
DC
SPARC Europe Utrecht
Syracuse University Syracuse
The Qualitative Report Fort Lauderdale, Florida
Trànsit Projectes Barcelona
Universidad del Atlantico Barranquilla
Université de Montréal Montréal
Université Laval Québec
Universitaet Hamburg Hamburg
Universitaetsbibliothek Duisburg Duisburg
University Library Groningen Groningen
University Library, Indiana University Purdue Universtiy Indianapolis
Indianapolis
University of Florida Gainesville
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Champaign, Illinois
University of Missouri-Columbia Columbia, MO
University of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh
Université de Montréal, École de Bibliothéconomie et des sciences de
l'information Montréal
Utah Academic Library Consortium Utah and Nevada
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