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From: Glenn Hampson [mailto:ghamp...@nationalscience.org] Sent: 10 September 2014 18:06 To: sci...@listserv.nsf.gov; resad...@lists.healthresearch.org; scholc...@ala.org Subject: [SCHOLCOMM] OSI update Hi Everyone, About 75 of you have already signed up to be part of the "Open Science Initiative" discussing the current gaps in open access and the future of science publishing. Thank you for your prompt response. We'll keep the signup link <http://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0B49AAAB22A1FF2-open1> (the code is OSI-2014) active until October 1. Please feel free to forward this to your colleagues. We would ideally like to have all stakeholder interests represented here---open access advocates, publishers, research managers, copyright experts, scholarly communications experts, scientists, science writers, and more. In the meantime, a few folks have emailed me expressing concern over the AAAS's decision to "no longer advance" open access. These words (from my email a few days ago) were copied from the title of <http://theconversation.com/top-scientific-publisher-chooses-not-to-advance- open-access-31248> this article explaining the concerns that some open access advocates have about how several new online journals (including Science Advances) are handling questions of copyright, publication fees, and so on. As noted in <http://poynder.blogspot.co.uk/2014/08/the-open-access-interviews-paul-royst er.html> this article by Richard Poynder, this disagreement is also internal to the open access community---the community itself doesn't agree on what constitutes open access right now. So the issue is more complicated than the article title suggests, and I apologize for hastily passing the title along verbatim, which made it look like a statement of fact, instead of, more accurately, as just an article link expressing an OA-related opinion. The AAAS has, in fact, played a tremendously important and influential role in science over the years, and can also do so in helping correct the gaps in open access and create a realistic and sustainable framework for the future of a science publishing. We very much look forward to working with them in this effort. Sincerely, Glenn Glenn Hampson Executive Director National Science Communication Institute (nSCI) 2320 N 137th Street | Seattle, WA 98133 (206) 417-3607 | ghamp...@nationalscience.org <mailto:ghamp...@nationalscience.org> | nationalscience.org <http://nationalscience.org/> PLEASE NOTE: This message, including any attachments, may include privileged, confidential and/or inside information. Any distribution or use of this communication by anyone other than the intended recipient(s) is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender by replying to this message and then delete it from your system.
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