For those who keep thinking it's impossible, the American Physical Society (APS) is still there, a permanent historiic record of the fact that it was and is possible for a publisher to act responsibly in the online era, not putting its own financial interests aheda of the interests of research and researchers:
1. The APS was the world's first "Green" publisher -- meaning APS formally recognized and endorsed its authors' right to self-archive their peer-reviewed papers in an Open Access repository, immediately upon acceptance for publication. http://users.ecs.soton.ac.uk/harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/subject.html#msg5291 2. The APS never embargoed Green OA. 3. The APS allowed the right to create derivative works as soon as the author community indicated it needed and wanted them. 4. The APS never lobbied against Green OA or Green OA mandates by fudners of institutions. 5. The APS never back-pedalled from its Green OA policy. 6. The APS also offered hybrid Gold-CC-BY for a fee, for those authors who needed and wanted it. (This is a perfectly reasonable special case of hybrid Gold OA at this early stage of global OA.) 7. All but one of APS's High Energy Physics journals have also joined the SOAP3 consortium (which is in fact beyond the call of duty!) 8. The APS is a Learned Society, and never invoked the need to ensure funding for its "good works" as an excuse for opposing OA. All publishers can and will adapt to OA. But the ones that keep trying to delay and obstruct it will not only have retarded research progress, but will also have left a permanent and shameful blemish on their historical record -- the very record that publishing is dedicated to providing and preserving. Stevan Harnad Begin forwarded message: > From: LIBLICENSE <liblice...@gmail.com> > Subject: Re: 2012 Nobel Prize in Physics in APS Journals > Date: 14 October, 2012 7:08:22 AM EDT > To: <liblicens...@listserv.crl.edu> > Reply-To: LibLicense-L Discussion Forum <liblicens...@listserv.crl.edu> > > From: Mark Doyle <do...@aps.org> > Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2012 16:35:05 -0400 > > Hi David, > > On Oct 10, 2012, at 3:12 PM, you wrote: > >> This is obviously a very generous gesture on behalf of the APS. >> >> A much wider range of papers by Professor Haroche and Wineland are >> also available, permanently open access, through arXiv. > > Some of the most significant work cited in the prize predates arXiv, > but you are, of course, correct. APS has been a strong supporter of > arXiv and was the first publisher to amend our copyright transfer > agreement to explicitly permit Green OA (either on author web sites or > in repositories) for all articles published in our journals (1997). We > continue to evolve our agreement with more recent changes including > generous rights related to derivative works. Any expansion of authors' > rights under our transfer agreement apply retroactively to all > articles published, not just future articles.. Finally, all of our > journals allow authors to choose to publish under a CC-BY license > (usually for a fee) if that is their preference. So we are quite happy > to have this work widely available in all of its different guises. > > Best, > Mark Doyle > > >> Best wishes >> >> David Prosser >> >> >> On 9 Oct 2012, at 22:01, LIBLICENSE wrote: >> >>> From: Mark Doyle <do...@aps.org> >>> Date: Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 4:15 PM >>> >>> Dear all, >>> >>> [Please excuse any cross-posting.] >>> >>> The American Physical Society congratulates Serge Haroche and David >>> Wineland, both Fellows of the APS, for their 2012 Nobel Prize in >>> Physics. They and their collaborators have made significant advances >>> in the realization of quantum phenomena with many beautiful >>> experiments. Their abilitiy to manipulate atoms and photons to >>> demonstrate fundamental aspects of quantum physics has been documented >>> in many journal articles. We are very pleased that much of this >>> seminal work has been published in the APS journals: Physical Review >>> Letters, Physical Review A, and Reviews of Modern Physics. To honor >>> these laureates and their collaborators, we have made freely available >>> five of their many APS publications that demonstrate some of the key >>> insights of their pioneering work. Please see our full announcement >>> (http://publish.aps.org/edannounce/2012-nobel-physics) and press >>> release (http://www.aps.org/about/pressreleases/nobel12.cfm) for >>> further information, including the five papers that have been made >>> Free to Read. >>> >>> Best regards, >>> Mark >>> >>> Mark Doyle >>> Director, Journal Information Systems >>> American Physical Society
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