Hi Andrea,
could you perhaps elaborate how exactly the Free Knowledge would benifit
from boycotting non-OA journals? (Not meant sarcastic, I really want to
know)
Also, how would you imagine such support? I could imagine that with any
support by Wikimedia for a boycott, people would assume automatically that
we would start blocking citations of said journals. Or are you thinking
about that Wikimedia related scholars are asked to public Open Access? (I
could imagine this is already the case)
In the past Wikimedia has always taken the stance that if people or
companies want to exercize their copyright within legal limits, we have no
objection to that (although we may challenge some of the legal limits).
Would you propose a standpoint that goes further than that? (because then,
it would imho certainly require much more community discussion before we
take such step)
Best regards,
Lodewijk
No dia 1 de Fevereiro de 2012 17:32, Andrea Zanni
<zanni.andrea84(a)gmail.com>escreveucreveu:
I don't know if it's the case,
but it would be very interesting to have the Foundation
support officialy the campaign (single scholars can do decide to boycott,
of course).
But "universal access to universal knowledge" is pretty Open Access to me,
and this think is taking momentum,
hopefully will be effective.
Aubrey
2012/2/1 Fred Bauder <fredbaud(a)fairpoint.net>
Another article:
http://chronicle.com/article/Who-Gets-to-See-Published/130403/
> "Elsevier has supported a proposed federal law, the Research Works Act
> (HR 3699), that could prevent agencies like the National Institutes of
> Health from making all articles written by grant recipients freely
> available."
>
>
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d112:h.r.03699:
>
> "Research Works Act - Prohibits a federal agency from adopting,
> maintaining, continuing, or otherwise engaging in any policy, program,
or
> other activity that: (1) causes, permits, or
authorizes network
> dissemination of any private-sector research work without the prior
> consent of the publisher; or (2) requires that any actual or
prospective
> author, or the author's employer, assent
to such network dissemination.
>
> Defines "private-sector research work" as an article intended to be
> published in a scholarly or scientific publication, or any version of
> such an article, that is not a work of the U.S. government, describing
or
> interpreting research funded in whole or in
part by a federal agency
and
> to which a commercial or nonprofit publisher
has made or has entered
into
> an arrangement to make a value-added
contribution, including peer
review
> or editing, but does not include progress
reports or raw data outputs
> routinely required to be created for and submitted directly to a
funding
agency in
the course of research."
Fred
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