Here is an important (and very welcome) correction from Eloy Rodrigues: On Jun 19, 2014, at 7:47 AM, Eloy Rodrigues <eloy—sdum—uminho--pt> wrote:
> Hi Stevan, > > The CAS mandate is for immediate deposit: > CAS requires its researchers and graduate students to > deposit an electronic version of the final, peer-reviewed manuscripts of > their research articles, > resulted from any public funded scientific research projects, > submitted and consequently published in academic journals > after the issuing of this policy, into the open access repositories > of their respective institutes at the time the article is published, > to be made publicly available within 12 months of the official data of > publication. > > And CAS already has a network of IRs. Xiaolin Zhang the CAS Library Director > has been a very active OA and IR advocate. > > Best, > > <image001.jpg> > Serviços de Documentação > Eloy Rodrigues > Direcção > Campus de Gualtar, 4710 - 057 Braga - Portugal > Telefone +351 253 604 150; Fax +351 253 604 159 > Campus de Azurém, 4800 058 Guimarães > Telefone +351 253 510 168; Fax +351 253 510 117 > http://www.sdum.uminho.pt | > > > > > > > > > <image004.jpg> > > De: Stevan Harnad > Enviada: quinta-feira, 19 de Junho de 2014 12:00 > Para: Global Open Access List (Successor of AmSci) > Assunto: [GOAL] Re: The Open Access Interviews: Deputy Director General of > the Bureau of Policy at the National Natural Science Foundation of China > > The two Chinese OA Mandates (NSFC and CAS) came fast (2014), but the > possibility of complying with them is coming slowly (no repository till 2016). > > In addition, articles need not be deposited until 12 months after publication. > > In most fields, especially the fast-moving sciences, the benefits of Open > Access (maximised uptake, usage, impact and progress) are biggest and most > important within the first year of publication. That is the growth tip of > research. Access losses in the first year are never fully caught up in later > years. The iron needs to be struck when it is hot. > > There are two very simple steps that China can take to minimise the needless > loss of research uptake, usage and impact because of lost time: > > (1) China should set up the repositories immediately, using the available > free softwares such as EPrints and DSpace. It requires only a server and a > few hours worth of set-up time and the repository is ready for deposits. > There is no reason whatsoever to wait two years. It would also be sensible to > have distributed local repositories — at universities and research > institutions — rather than just one central one. Each institution can easily > set up its own repository. All repositories are interoperable and if and when > desired, their contents can be automatically exported to or harvested by > central repositories. > > (2) Although an OA embargo of 12 months is allowed, China should mandate that > deposit itself must be immediate(immediately upon acceptance for > publication). Access to the deposit can be set as closed access instead of OA > during the embargo if desired, but EPrints and DSpace repositories have the > “Request-Copy” Button for closed-access deposits so that individual users can > request and authors can provide an individual copy for research purposes with > one click each. The repository automatically emails the copy if the author > clicks Yes. > > Stevan Harnad > > > On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 5:04 AM, Richard Poynder > <richard.poyn...@btinternet.com> wrote: > On May 15 both the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and the National Natural > Science Foundation of China (NSFC) announced new open access policies. > > Both funders’ policies require that all papers resulting from funded projects > must be deposited in online repositories and made publicly accessible within > 12 months of publication — a model pioneered by the US National Institutes of > Health (NIH) in 2008, when it introduced its influential Public Access Policy. > > As a result of the new Chinese policies there will be a significant increase > in the number of research papers freely available, not least because it comes > at a time when the number of papers published by Chinese researchers is > growing rapidly. In reporting news of the policies, Nature indicated that > Chinese research output has grown from 48,000 articles in 2003, or 5.6% of > the global total, to more than 186,000 articles in 2012, or 13.9%. > > Of the latter figure, more than 100,000 papers, or 55.2% of Chinese ouput, > involved some funding from the NSFC. > > A Q&A conducted by email with Prof. Yonghe Zheng, Deputy Director General of > the Bureau of Policy, NSFC can be viewed here: > > http://poynder.blogspot.co.uk/2014/06/the-open-access-interviews-deputy.html >
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