Re: Comparing the Wellcome OA Policy and the RCUK (draft) Policy

2005-05-21 Thread Leslie Carr
On 21 May 2005, at 03:28, David Goodman wrote: I'm just commenting on one key part of the exchange, where I disagree with both parties: I think I disagree that we disagree! The life sciences have already moved beyond the need to read a word document on a local website I definitely agree with

Re: Comparing the Wellcome OA Policy and the RCUK (draft) Policy

2005-05-21 Thread David Goodman
Carr Sent: Fri 5/20/2005 4:54 AM To: american-scientist-open-access-fo...@listserver.sigmaxi.org Subject: Re: Comparing the Wellcome OA Policy and the RCUK (draft) Policy I welcome the Wellcome stance on OA archiving, and like Stevan, believe that the issue at stake is one of strategy.

Re: Comparing the Wellcome OA Policy and the RCUK (draft) Policy

2005-05-20 Thread Leslie Carr
I welcome the Wellcome stance on OA archiving, and like Stevan, believe that the issue at stake is one of strategy. After all, since 1999's formation of the Open Archiving Initiative, repositories have been built with an eye to interoperability because it is recognised that they operate in a large

Re: Comparing the Wellcome OA Policy and the RCUK (draft) Policy

2005-05-19 Thread Stevan Harnad
On Thu, 19 May 2005, Robert Terry (Wellcome Trust) wrote: > [http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/doc_WTX025191.html ] > [Here is] why funding institutions believe that central repositories are > the best scientific solution for access to the research papers and the > data they fund. The issue is not whethe

Re: Comparing the Wellcome OA Policy and the RCUK (draft) Policy

2005-05-19 Thread Terry ,Mr Robert
-open-access-fo...@listserver.sigmaxi.org]On Behalf Of Stevan Harnad Sent: 19 May 2005 00:36 To: american-scientist-open-access-fo...@listserver.sigmaxi.org Subject: Re: Comparing the Wellcome OA Policy and the RCUK (draft) Policy On Wed, 18 May 2005, [identity deleted] wrote: > ...[Concerning] t

Re: Comparing the Wellcome OA Policy and the RCUK (draft) Policy

2005-05-19 Thread Stevan Harnad
On Wed, 18 May 2005, [identity deleted] wrote: > ...[Concerning] the plans of the UK research councils [RCUK] > and the Wellcome Trust to require their grantees to place copies of > peer-reviewed research in open access archives some time after initial > publication. > > -How effective will this m

Comparing the Wellcome OA Policy and the RCUK (draft) Policy

2005-05-19 Thread Stevan Harnad
The following query was received Tuesday: > on Thursday the Wellcome Trust will announce that as of October this year, > all new grant recipients "must" post any papers arising from Wellcome funded > work on either PubMedCentral or the yet to be established UKPMC, "within six > months of publicati