[GOAL] Re: {Disarmed} DBT-DST Open Access Policy - Now 2nd Draft available for public comments

2014-10-10 Thread Stevan Harnad
Dear Anup,

Nothing could be more predictable than Elsevier's proposal for ruining your
excellent OA mandate proposal:

*Elsevier-1: "Pay Gold rather than providing Green. It's better."*

*Recommended Response*: *No, thanks... ;>)*

*Elsevier-2: "Allow OA embargoes of longer than 12 months after
publication."*

*Recommended Response*: *No, thanks... ;>)*.

*Elsevier-3: "Don't require deposit immediately upon acceptance: make it
after the embargo elapses..."*

*Recommended Response*: *No, thanks... ;>)*

*Elsevier-4: "Don't require deposit of the author's final draft; in fact
don't recommend deposit at all: Let us do the deposit for you, at the
appointed time..."*

*Recommended Response*: *No, thanks... ;>)*.

Now would be an excellent time to stop listening to the Siren croak of the
publishing industry and do what's right for research, researchers, their
institutions, their funders, and the tax-paying public that bankrolls the
whole thing,

Best wishes,

Stevan

On Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 9:31 AM, anup kumar das 
wrote:

> Dear Colleagues,
>
> Now DBT-DST open access policy redrafted based on your inputs. They are
> open to more inputs till Nov 17. Also compare which clauses are dropped
> from the first draft. Here is the revised draft available online:
> http://www.dbtindia.nic.in/policy/DBT-DST_Open_Access_Policy_2nd_Draft.pdf
>
> Comments/ Responses already available for the first draft of DBT-DST Open
> Access Policy
> 1. Comments on the Proposed Open Access Policy of the DBT-DST by the
> Centre for Internet and Society, India
> http://cis-india.org/openness/blog/cis-comments-to-the-department-of-biotechnology-and-department-of-science-open-access-policy
> 2. India’s DBT and DST Call for Comments on Draft Open Access Policy with
> Respect to Public Funded Research by SpicyIP Tidbit
> http://spicyip.com/2014/07/spi
> cyip-tidbit-indias-dbt-and-dst-call-for-comments-on-draft-open-access-policy-with-respect-to-public-funded-research.html
> 3. Bravo to India’s DBT / DST on their proposed open access policy! by Dr.
> Heather Morrison
> http://sustainingknowledgecommons.org/2014/07/05/bravo-to-indias-dbt-dst-on-their-proposed-open-access-policy/
> 4. Elsevier Response on DBT-DST Open Access Policy
> http://www.elsevier.com/__data/assets/pdf_file/0005/213476/Elsevier_Response-on-DBT-DST-OPEN-ACCESS-POLICY.PDF
> 5. Why not all research data be on Open Access?
>  http://www.currentscience.ac.in/Volumes/107/07/1093.pdf
> 
>
> With Best Regards
>
> Anup
>
>
> On Sun, Jul 6, 2014 at 7:31 PM,  wrote:
> Re: Open Access Policy on Website for Comments-Revised (4.7.2014) (Stevan
> Harnad)
> From: Stevan Harnad 
>
> The DBT/DST OA Mandate is excellent. It includes all six critical
> conditions for a natural, effective, verifiable and successful policy:
>
> 1. Author freedom of choice of journal is preserved.
> 2. Author may choose Green OA self-archiving or Gold OA publishing
> 3. Final refereed draft must be deposited in institutional repository
> immediately upon acceptance for publication
> 4. Funding is contingent on immediate deposit
> 5. Publisher embargo on making the immediate-deposit OA not to exceed 12
> months
> 6. Repository should have the copy-request Button so author can provide
> individual access during embargo
>
> The critical conditions are excerpted below:
>
> DBT/DST Open Access Policy
>
> Grantees can make their papers open-access by publishing in an open-access
> journal or, if they choose to publish in a subscription journal, by posting
> the final accepted manuscript to an online repository.  What should be
> deposited? The final accepted manuscript (after refereeing, revision, etc.)
>  Where to deposit? The manuscript should be deposited in the grantee?s own
> institution?s interoperable institutional repository (IR). If the
> institution does not yet have an IR of its own, then the paper should be
> deposited in the central repository, which will be created by *DBT/DST.*
> When to deposit? Deposits should be made within one week of acceptance by
> the journal. However, if the journal insists on an embargo, the material
> should still be deposited, but the repository will keep the deposited
> papers non-OA and only make it fully OA at the end of the embargo period.
> Suggest that the period of embargo not be greater than one year.
> Articles under an embargo can still be made available to individuals by
> use of the Request Button available with the IR software. By use of the
> Request Button, a reader may automatically send a request for a copy to the
> author, as is commonly done by other communication means.
> Who should deposit? The principal investigator (PI) or someone authorized
> by the PI, or anyone authorized by the he

[GOAL] {Disarmed} DBT-DST Open Access Policy - Now 2nd Draft available for public comments

2014-10-10 Thread anup kumar das
Dear Colleagues,

Now DBT-DST open access policy redrafted based on your inputs. They are
open to more inputs till Nov 17. Also compare which clauses are dropped
from the first draft. Here is the revised draft available online:
http://www.dbtindia.nic.in/policy/DBT-DST_Open_Access_Policy_2nd_Draft.pdf

Comments/ Responses already available for the first draft of DBT-DST Open
Access Policy
1. Comments on the Proposed Open Access Policy of the DBT-DST by the Centre
for Internet and Society, India
http://cis-india.org/openness/blog/cis-comments-to-the-department-of-biotechnology-and-department-of-science-open-access-policy
2. India’s DBT and DST Call for Comments on Draft Open Access Policy with
Respect to Public Funded Research by SpicyIP Tidbit
http://spicyip.com/2014/07/spi
cyip-tidbit-indias-dbt-and-dst-call-for-comments-on-draft-open-access-policy-with-respect-to-public-funded-research.html
3. Bravo to India’s DBT / DST on their proposed open access policy! by Dr.
Heather Morrison
http://sustainingknowledgecommons.org/2014/07/05/bravo-to-indias-dbt-dst-on-their-proposed-open-access-policy/
4. Elsevier Response on DBT-DST Open Access Policy
http://www.elsevier.com/__data/assets/pdf_file/0005/213476/Elsevier_Response-on-DBT-DST-OPEN-ACCESS-POLICY.PDF
5. Why not all research data be on Open Access?
http://www.currentscience.ac.in/Volumes/107/07/1093.pdf


With Best Regards

Anup


On Sun, Jul 6, 2014 at 7:31 PM,  wrote:
Re: Open Access Policy on Website for Comments-Revised (4.7.2014) (Stevan
Harnad)
From: Stevan Harnad 

The DBT/DST OA Mandate is excellent. It includes all six critical
conditions for a natural, effective, verifiable and successful policy:

1. Author freedom of choice of journal is preserved.
2. Author may choose Green OA self-archiving or Gold OA publishing
3. Final refereed draft must be deposited in institutional repository
immediately upon acceptance for publication
4. Funding is contingent on immediate deposit
5. Publisher embargo on making the immediate-deposit OA not to exceed 12
months
6. Repository should have the copy-request Button so author can provide
individual access during embargo

The critical conditions are excerpted below:

DBT/DST Open Access Policy

Grantees can make their papers open-access by publishing in an open-access
journal or, if they choose to publish in a subscription journal, by posting
the final accepted manuscript to an online repository.  What should be
deposited? The final accepted manuscript (after refereeing, revision, etc.)
 Where to deposit? The manuscript should be deposited in the grantee?s own
institution?s interoperable institutional repository (IR). If the
institution does not yet have an IR of its own, then the paper should be
deposited in the central repository, which will be created by *DBT/DST.*
When to deposit? Deposits should be made within one week of acceptance by
the journal. However, if the journal insists on an embargo, the material
should still be deposited, but the repository will keep the deposited
papers non-OA and only make it fully OA at the end of the embargo period.
Suggest that the period of embargo not be greater than one year.
Articles under an embargo can still be made available to individuals by use
of the Request Button available with the IR software. By use of the Request
Button, a reader may automatically send a request for a copy to the author,
as is commonly done by other communication means.
Who should deposit? The principal investigator (PI) or someone authorized
by the PI, or anyone authorized by the head of the institution where the
work is carried out (such as the librarian), can deposit the papers. Both
the PI and the head of the institution will be responsible for timely
deposit of the paper.
Depositing in a repository is mandatory Unless the deposit ID is quoted in
the project report as well as in future proposals for funding, the
proposals will not be considered.
The DBT/DST recommend/s that all authors receiving funds from DBT/DST
should, at the time of returning the copyright transfer form, inform the
publisher that they would retain the right to place the full-text of the
final author version in the institution?s IR and DBT/DST Central. This can
be achieved by attaching to the copyright transfer agreement the DBT/DST
author addendum.

Stevan Harnad

On Sat, Jul 5, 2014 at 1:55 AM, Subbiah Arunachalam <
subbiah.arunacha...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear All,
> Here is the proposed OA policy for DBT and DST, Government of India.
> http://dbtindia.nic.in/docs/DBT-DST_Open_Access_Policy.pdf
> Your comments and suggestions are welcome.
> With best regards,
> Arun

-- 
~~~
*Dr. Anup Kumar Das*
Centre for Studies in Sc