Happy Birthday to the Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI),
celebrating it's 5th anniversary in Brussels on an auspicious occasion
(also taking place in Brussels)!
http://www.soros.org/openaccess/
See Peter Suber's Open Access News:
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2007_02_11_fosblogarchive.html#117146494448761111
BOAI's 5th is being celebrated this evening, on the eve of the Brussels EC
meeting:
http://ec.europa.eu/research/science-society/page_en.cfm?id=3459
Tomorrow, February 15, two results will be announced in Brussels:
(1) The results of a poll of EC F6 projects on the EC Open Access
Self-Archiving Mandate proposal (A1). (85%/15% in Favour):
http://cordis.europa.eu/fp6/projects.htm
(2) The results of the petition in Favour (20,000 signatures, including
1000 organisations):
http://www.ec-petition.eu/
On that same day, all over the United States, there will be a "National Day
of Action" by students in support of the FRPAA Open Access Self-Archiving
Mandate Proposal (The US equivalent of EC A1):
http://www.taxpayeraccess.org/media/Release07-0201.html
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In contrast, see the "Brussels Declaration" (by 43 STM publishers),
also timed to coincide with the Brussels meeting.
http://www.stm-assoc.org/documents-statements-public-co/2007%20BRUSSELS%20DECLARATION%20130207.pdf
(I will not comment, because I consider the publishing
community's views on whether or not the research community
should, in the Web era, provide open access to its own research
publications to be completely irrelevant, and already aired --
and rebutted -- many times over. But Peter Suber has done a wise
commentary.)
http://www.taxpayeraccess.org/media/Release07-0201.html
Berners-Lee, T., De Roure, D., Harnad, S. and Shadbolt, N. (2005)
Journal publishing and author self-archiving: Peaceful Co-Existence
and Fruitful Collaboration.
http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/11160/
Stevan Harnad
Received on Wed Feb 14 2007 - 17:08:30 GMT