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Re: DC Principles

As a supporter of open access I welcome the opportunity the publication of
the DC Principles provides to discuss "free access to science" with
learned societies publishing so many prestigious journals. In a spirit of
trying to discover what the DC Principles really mean in practice, I would
welcome factual information from the societies concerned on two points:

1. How many of the 447,000 free articles are in current issues of the
journals? The press release promises more information on the
www.dcprinciples.org web-site but I could find no information about where
to find the free articles or how many of them reflect current research.

2. How many of the societies allow authors to place pre-prints or
post-prints of their articles on open personal or institutional web-sites?
The DC Principles are silent on this point and it is a key question for
any society wishing to "support broad access to the scientific and medical
literature".

I hope that the answers to these two questions will lead to a constructive
dialogue between open access advocates and the learned societies
supporting the DC Principles.

Fred Friend

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ann Okerson" <ann.okerson@yale.edu>
To: <liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, March 17, 2004 2:43 AM
Subject: DC Principles

> This morning at the National Press Club, 48 scientific society publishers
> issued a statement called the "DC Principles for Free Access to science."
> The statement reaffirms the commitment of these publishers to the widest
> possible dissemination of scientific research, under a variety of business
> models.  The statement asserts that the costs of publishing should not be
> borne solely by authors and their institutions (a somewhat different
> approach to that articulated by many Open Access advocates).
>
> See a description and the Statement, which is now available at the web
> site of the American Society of Plant Biologists:
>
> <http://www.aspb.org/publications/dcprinciples.cfm#media>
>
> No doubt reports of the actual press conference will appear shortly.
>
> Ann Okerson/liblicense-l moderator