[Foundation-l] Journal Boycott

[Chess Pie]

Looks like a braindead law.
Does the foundation have a specific position on OpenAccess?


----- Original Message -----
From: Andrea Zanni <zanni.andrea84 at gmail.com>
To: fredbaud at fairpoint.net; Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List <foundation-l at lists.wikimedia.org>
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Sent: Wednesday, February 1, 2012 4:32 PM
Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Journal Boycott

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 at 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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