Interviews on Open Access in Research Information Magazine

[Stevan Harnad <harnad@ecs.soton.ac.uk>]

     ** Apologies for Cross-Posting **

Research Information has just published a series of interviews by 
editor Sian Harris on Open Access: 
http://www.researchinformation.info/rijunjul06openaccess.html

     * 'Open access is much wider than just readers not paying'
       Martin Richardson, Oxford Journals
     * 'Academics have access anyway'
       Michael Mabe, formerly of Elsevier
     * 'Text mining of subject archives will enable new facts to be
       discovered'
       Robert Terry, The Wellcome Trust
     * 'Self-archiving should be mandatory'
       Steven Harnad, U Quebec/Montreal & U Southampton
     * 'The environmental community will embrace open-access'
       Tim Smith, Institute of Physics Publishing
     * 'Many areas of research are funded by taxpayers but they do not
       see the results'
       Matthew Cockerill, BioMed Central
     * 'The first priority should be awareness-raising'
       Alma Swan, Key Perspectives
     * 'Our community is used to immediate release of preprints'
       Jens Vigen, CERN
     * 'Get research authors to change their behaviour'
       Leslie Carr, University of Southampton

A few errors crept into the interview with me, so I have posted a 
corrected version of my bit (corrections in red) at: 
http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Temp/shcorrex.html

Research Information has also added a small poll about OA 
publishing and OA self-archiving, but there too, the first 
question somewhat misdescribed the alternatives: It is not 
Subscription vs. Author Pays. It should be 
"Subscriber-Institution Pays" vs. "Author-Institution Pays".

---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2006 14:57:08 +0100
From: Sian Harris
Subject: Open access interview

Dear Stevan

Thank you for your help with my open access article. The 
interviews have just gone live on our new-look website at 
http://www.researchinformation.info/rijunjul06openaccess.html

We have also just launched a simple poll on the home page to 
gauge views on the open-access debate - go to 
http://www.researchinformation.info to cast your vote!

A copy of the magazine will also be sent to you when they come 
back from the printers.

Best wishes,
Sian

Dr Sian Harris
Editor, Research Information
Bristol, BS1 4ND, UK
Tel: +44 (0)117 956 1516
sian AT europascience.com
http://www.researchinformation.info