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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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