[Foundation-l] Journal Boycott

[Lodewijk]

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 at gmail.com>escreveu:

> 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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