[net-gold] PUBLISHERS PUBLISHING AND PUBLICATIONS: SCHOLARLY PUBLICATIONS: Amid Boycott, Elsevier Backtracks on Research Bill
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- Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2012 18:23:45 -0500 (EST)
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PUBLISHERS PUBLISHING AND PUBLICATIONS: SCHOLARLY PUBLICATIONS:
Amid Boycott, Elsevier Backtracks on Research Bill
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Amid Boycott, Elsevier Backtracks on Research Bill
Journal publisher still opposes current U.S. rules mandating access to
taxpayer-funded research
CBC News
Posted: Feb 27, 2012 1:31 PM ET
Last Updated: Feb 27, 2012 3:00 PM ET
http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/story/
2012/02/27/science-elsevier-boycott.html
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A shorter URL for the above link:
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http://tinyurl.com/6p5osph
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One of the largest academic publishers in the world withdrew its support
Monday from a controversial U.S. bill, the Research Works Act, that
critics feel would restrict public access to published, publicly-funded
research.
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The change of heart by Dutch publisher Elsevier follows a boycott of its
journals and publishing ventures by thousands of researchers around the
world.
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More than 7,400 researchers, including several in Canada, publicly
declared they would not publish in Elsevier journals or peer review papers
for those journals, or do editing work for them as part of a "Cost of
Knowledge" boycott launched in January. The researchers normally provide
those services for free to scieintific journal publishers.
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Elsevier's sponsorship of the bill had been cited as one of the reasons
for the boycott, along with: Its support for other bills that could limit
open access to published research; the company's high subscription prices;
and business practices that force academic libraries to buy large
"bundles" of journals they don't want.
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The Research Works Act, sponsored by New York congresswoman Carolyn
Maloney, a Democrat, and California congressman Darrell Issa, a
Republican, would ban federal funding agencies from stipulating that the
published results of the research they fund must be made freely accessible
to the public within a certain amount of time.
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The complete article may be read at the URL above.
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ELSEVIER WITHDRAWS SUPPORT FOR THE RESEARCH WORKS ACT
http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/intro.cws_home/newmessagerwa
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While we continue to oppose government mandates in this area, Elsevier is
withdrawing support for the Research Work Act itself. We hope this will
address some of the concerns expressed and help create a less heated and
more productive climate for our ongoing discussions with research funders.
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Cooperation and collaboration are critical because different kinds of
journals in different fields have different economics and models.
Inflexible mandates that do not take those differences into account and do
not involve the publisher in decision making can undermine the
peer-reviewed journals that serve an essential purpose in the research
community. Therefore, while withdrawing support for the Research Works
Act, we will continue to join with those many other nonprofit and
commercial publishers and scholarly societies that oppose repeated efforts
to extend mandates through legislation.
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Read more at the link immediately above:
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