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    If the scientific community ceased publishing in for-profit journals tomorrow, I am concerned that they could retaliate by raising the barriers to our accessing the copyrighted literature they have accumulated over the past decades. I understand that Congress has mandated that NIH funded research must be in the public domain one year after it is published. Is anyone aware of efforts that are already underway to lobby for additional legislation that could help enable us to break free of for-profit publishers?

    November 9, 2007
    Retaliation is not likely to be a successful long-term strategy. It might stave off change in the near term for a short while if the publishers can make authors fearful enough. It would also create tremendous ill-will. Just see the fall out from the Denzenhall PR flap reported in Nature and the recent revulsion to the AAP PRISM initiative which remains without any named publisher sign-ups. Authors should serve themselves well with an offensive strategy rather than predicting defensive positions. - Kimberly Douglas (Caltech) September 21, 2007 Comment deleted
    Slashdot has a reference to a nature news brief that says the new NIH funding bill includes a 1 year requirement for NIH funded research to only be published in journals that will be open access after a year. This is apparently on the list of bills Bush intends to veto (for unrelated reasons.) I'm thinking of writing Schiff & maybe Feinstein and Boxer in support of this... (Is Caltech in Schiff's district?) Does anyone know if this is a good step in the right direction? (among other things, I'd prefer to not limit it to NIH, but also NSF, DARPA, and so forth.) As long as I'm posting, I mentioned to a friend who writes for the ... more - Mark Montague (Caltech) November 7, 2007 Comment deleted
    It’s great to hear you’d like to get more involved. I strongly encourage you to contact your House representatives and Senators to voice your continued support for open access. The Alliance for Taxpayer Access has a form letter you can use to support for the recent passage of the NIH funded research provision in the FY08 Labor/HHS Appropriations Bill. Regarding follow up, the next panel discussion in the series "What's Wrong with Scientific Publishing, and How do We Fix It?" will be occurring November 28th at Caltech. Jasna Markovac, former Senior Vice President at Elsevier, will be providing an ... more - John M. Delacruz (Caltech) November 9, 2007 Comment deleted
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