New New Spanish Funder's Open Access mandate - Comunidad Madrid
[On behalf of Alicia López Medina] Madrid Autonomous Community of Spain mandates Open Access for its funded research results. (... )researchers beneficiary of the grant programme must facilitate open access to their research results in the institutional repository of their institution or in the independent repository of the Autonomous Community of Madrid, where they will deposit a copy of the published article version or the author's final version and extra materials in a period no longer than 6 months for the areas of Technology and Biosciences and 12 months for the areas of Social Sciences and Humanities, to count from the official date of publication of the articles in the journal. From the point 9 of the regulation for financing RD by the Madrid Community: Status: O 9. De conformidad con la política de fomento del acceso abierto a los resultados de la investigación científica impulsada por la Comunidad de Madrid, que se alinea con las políticas y recomendaciones realizadas al respecto por la Unión Europea, los investigadores beneficiarios del programa *deberán* facilitar el acceso abierto a los resultados de su investigación en el repositorio institucional disponible a tal efecto en su universidad, organismo público de investigación y/o en el repositorio independiente de la Comunidad de Madrid, en el que deberán depositar una copia del artículo publicado o la versión final del mismo, aceptada para su publicación, junto con los documentos de trabajo, los resultados de los experimentos, etcétera, en un plazo no superior a seis meses para las áreas de tecnologías y biociencias y de doce meses para las áreas de ciencias sociales y humanidades desde el momento de publicación del artículo. ORDEN 679/2009, de 19 de febrero, por la que se establecen las bases reguladoras de ayudas a programas de actividades de I + D entre grupos de investigación de la Comunidad de Madrid y convocatoria en tecnologías cofinanciada con Fondo Social Europeo http://www.madrimasd.org/informacionidi/convocatorias/2009/documentos/Orden_ 679-2009_19-02-09_Convocatoria_Ayuda_Programas_Actividades_Tecnonologia.pdf Eloy Rodrigues Universidade do Minho - Serviços de Documentação Campus de Gualtar - 4710 - 057 Braga Telefone: + 351 253604150; Fax: + 351 253604159 Campus de Azurém - 4800 - 058 Guimarães Telefone: + 351 253510168; Fax: + 351 253510117
Re: Central 'Request a copy' address?
[ The following text is in the WINDOWS-1252 character set. ] [ Your display is set for the iso-8859-1 character set. ] [ Some characters may be displayed incorrectly. ] I completely agree with Charles: The quintessence of the functionality and legality of the email-eprint-request Button is that it is author-governed: Authors are sending one individual copy of their own refereed drafts to individual eprint requesters for research purposes, just as they used to send one individual copy of their own reprints to individual reprint requesters for research purposes by post for decades. This is not like an interlibrary loan request: Libraries are 3rd-party clients, not 1st-party authors. So although the motivation is a good one, I am afraid that the idea of centralized, automated fair-use by a 3rd-party service is simply not viable. Nor is it necessary: The Almost-OA Button has other virtues, besides being legal, almost-immediate, fulfilling researcher needs almost as well as immediate OA, and enabling institutions to adopt a blanket deposit mandate, without exceptions, regardless of publisher embargoes on OA (by allowing access to embargoed deposits to be set as Closed Access and letting the Button do the work during the embargo). In addition to all that, the Button brings into strong relief, for authors as well as users worldwide, the fact that the only difference between Almost-OA and OA is a keystroke, and that the extra delay and inconvenience imposed by the Almost-OA Button is something to eradicate as soon as possible, as simply a gratuitous impediment to research progress. And eradicated it will be, under the growing pressure from the increasingly palpable benefits of universal deposit mandates and the OA (63%) and almost-OA (37%) that they vouchsafe. So just mandate deposit, implement the Button, and let nature take care of the rest. Stevan Harnad On 27-Mar-09, at 8:35 AM, c.oppenh...@lboro.ac.uk wrote: Ah, not quite so straightforward. it's one thing for an individual researcher to respond to a request of a reprint from another researcher. it's quite another thing to offer a generic service to all. I think publishers would be deeply suspicious of such a service, which I would regard as high risk legally. Charles Professor Charles Oppenheim Head Department of Information Science Loughborough University Loughborough Leics LE11 3TU Tel 01509-223065 Fax 01509 223053 e mail c.oppenh...@lboro.ac.uk From: Repositories discussion list [mailto:jisc-repositor...@jiscmail.ac.uk] On Behalf Of J.W.T.Smith Sent: 27 March 2009 12:09 To: jisc-repositor...@jiscmail.ac.uk Subject: Central 'Request a copy' address? Hi, In EPrints, when there is a contact address for a repository item, an external user sees a ?request a copy? button. I was thinking of adding a generic ?request? address to all the items that have no contact address so requests for these items would come to a central service. If I have understood Charles Oppenheim?s advice on Copyright we could supply a copy of the paper to the requestor free of charge without infringing Copyright (assuming they say it is for private non-commercial use). Has anyone done this (or similar)? Is it Copyright OK? Regards, John Smith, KAR (Kent Academic Repository) Admin.
One more of Richard Poynder's revealing and insightf ul OA Interviews, this time of France's first and foremost O A champion, H�l�ne Bosc.on
One more of Richard Poynder's revealing and insightful OA Interviews, this time of France's first and foremost OA champion, Hélène Bosc. The full interview is here. Peter Suber, writes: This is another richly textured interview, unearthing details about the early history of OA, OA in France, OA in Europe, and the career of one of Europe's first and most influential OA activists It's difficult to excerpt, but here's a little to whet your appetite... Here are some excerpts from Peter's excerpts: Former INRA librarian, [convenor for the EuroScience Working Group on Science Publishing,] and passionate champion of Open Access (OA) in France, Hélène Bosc began advocating for OA in 1995, before the term even existed... Like other librarians who have embraced OA, Bosc's starting point was the so-called serials crisis RP: So how would you present the case for self-archiving mandates both generally, and within the context of France? HB: Mandates are necessary to fill up repositories. All the author surveys and outcome studies that have been undertaken worldwide show this to be so, including studies in France: In a study I did, for instance, I showed that by assisting researchers to archive Ifremer has managed to capture 80% of recently published papers in the institution's repository, Archimer. By contrast HAL has captured only 10-15 % of French research output RP: How would you describe France's take-up of OA as compared to other Western countries? HB: As we said, HAL was created over seven years ago, and following the signing of the protocole d'accord in July 2006, all French researchers were supposed to deposit their publications in HAL. That would seem to suggest that we were ahead of other countries, and yet today we are not: In spite of our technical lead, HAL has achieved the global default deposit rate of only 10-15 % RP: What is at stake? HB: What is at stake is that if France wants to be in the research vanguard, it must embrace OA quickly, before all the other countries pull ahead. My view is that as the first French universities see the deposit rate in their repositories approach 100% they will understand the OA citation advantage, and start to benefit from all the other advantages provided by OA
Spain's 3rd and 4th Green OA Mandates, Planet's 71st and 72nd
A second university mandate (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid) plus a second funder mandate (Madrid Autonomous Community) from Spain, raising the worldwide total of Green OA self-archiving mandates to 72! ¡Viva España!
