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Tuesday 14 September 2004
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The evidence

What can research agencies, publishers and government do to promote access to the scientific literature, and who should pay? Here, we present links to position papers on the question from academic and other institutions.

Many organizations have been stimulated to give thought to access issues by the UK House of Commons Science and Technology Committee's 'Inquiry into Scientific Publications.' Here we present links to position papers by institutions taking part in the inquiry.

American Association of Law Libraries, the American Library Association, the Association of Academic Health Sciences Libraries, the Association of College and Research Libraries, the Association of Research Libraries, the Medical Library Association, and SPARC (the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition)

Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers

BioMed Central
         Annex document

Blackwell Publishing

Electronic Publishing Trust for Development (EPT)

Elsevier
          Summary

Institution of Mechanical Engineers

Institute of Physics

Oxford University Press

Physiological Society

Public Library of Science

Publishers Association

Royal Society

Society for Endocrinology

Society for General Microbiology

Southampton University

The Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals

The Royal College of Psychiatrists

The Wellcome Trust

Wiley

World Cancer Research Fund International

World Summit On the Information Society (WSIS) Civil Society Working Group on Scientific Information

Position papers on access from other organizations

Association of College and Research Libraries Principles and Strategies for the Reform of Scholarly Communication

Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities

European Laboratory for Particle Physics (CERN)

International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA)

Journal of the American Medica Association (JAMA)

The editorial board of Elsevier's Journal of Algorithms resigned on 31 December 2003, and launched a new journal, Transactions on Algorithms, on 21 January 2004 published by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).

The board's public statement

And a letter by Donald Knuth, editor-in-chief, Department of Computer Science, Stanford University

The Washington DC Principles for Free Access to Science

UK Medical Research Council

UK Wellcome Trust

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