Update on Nature & the Access Debate

[Ann Okerson <ann.okerson@yale.edu>]

Forwarded from Declan Buter, Nature
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The communication of research results impacts on everyone involved in
science. Nature's online debate on the most crucial and talked-about aspect
of scientific publishing -- the impact of the web on the publication of
original research -- is freely accessible via Nature's home page:

http://www.nature.com   or directly at

http://www.nature.com/nature/debates/e-access/


1. Latest contributions
28 August 2001
Text markup and the cost of access
Jon Bosak, Sun Microsystems

28 August 2001
Distributed and centralized technologies: complementary tools to build a
permanent digital archive
Matt Cockerill, Technical Director, BioMed Central Limited

28 August 2001
Evolution and revolution: pragmatism versus dogmatism
Ed Pentz, Executive Director, Publishers International Linking Association

20 August 2001
No Free Lunch!
Martin Frank, Executive Director, American Physiological Society

14 August 2001
Digital archives: how we can provide access to �old� biomedical information
Richard R. Rowe, Chairman, RoweCom.

2. Previous contributions

o librarians

Evolution and scientific literature: towards a decentralized adaptive web
Rick Luce, director, Research Library of Los Alamos National Laboratory
(10 May 2001)

What price 'free'?
Ann Okerson, Associate University Librarian, Yale University
(5 April 2001)

o not-for-profit science publishers

No Free Lunch!
Martin Frank, Executive Director, American Physiological Society
(20 August 2001)

Whither competition?
Richard K. Johnson, Enterprise Director, SPARC
(15 June 2001)

Authors willing to pay for instant web access
Thomas J. Walker, Department of Entomology and Nematology, University of
Florida.

Innovation and service in scientific publishing requires more, not less,
competition
Michael Keller, Publisher, HighWire Press
(25 May 2001)

Electronic access to journals: the views of the American Physical Society
Martin Blume, Editor-in-Chief, The American Physical Society
(12 April 2001)

Boycott!
Frank Gannon, Executive Director, European Molecular Biology Organization
(5 April 2001)

Setting Logical Priorities
Ira Mellman, Editor of The Journal of Cell Biology
(5 April 2001)

Impacts of free access
Martin Richardson, Journals Publishing Director, Oxford University Press
(5 April 2001)

Position statement by the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular
Biology
Robert D. Wells, President, ASBMB, and Herbert Tabor, Editor, J. Biol. Chem.
(5 April 2001)

o for-profit science publishers

Digital archives: how we can provide access to �old� biomedical information
Richard R. Rowe, Chairman, RoweCom.
(14 August 2001)

Information access: what is to be done?
Robert Campbell, President, Blackwell Science Ltd
(27 April 2001)

Content and context in one service, tailored to meet the needs of scientists
Derk Haank, CEO, Elsevier Science
(5 April 2001)

o databases & repositories

Evolution and revolution: pragmatism versus dogmatism
Ed Pentz, Executive Director, Publishers International Linking Association
(28 August 2001)

Tailoring access to the source: preprints, grey literature and journal
articles
Walter Warnick, Director, The Office of Scientific and Technical Information
(OSTI), US Department of Energy
(3 May 2001)

The self-archiving initiative
Stevan Harnad, Intelligence/Agents/Multimedia Group, Department of
Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton
(26 April 2001)

GenBank - a model community resource?
Jo McEntyre & David J. Lipman, National Center for Biotechnology
Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health
(5 April 2001)

E-Biosci: a European approach to handling biological information
Les Grivell, Director, E-Biosci
(5 April 2001)

PubMed Central decides to decentralize
Edwin Sequeira, Johanna McEntyre & David Lipman, National Center for
Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes
of Health
(5 April 2001)

o technology developers

Text markup and the cost of access
Jon Bosak, Sun Microsystems
(28 August 2001)

Distributed and centralized technologies: complementary tools to build a
permanent digital archive
Matt Cockerill, Technical Director, BioMed Central Limited
(28 August 2001)

Scientific publishing on the 'semantic web'
Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web and director of the
World Wide Web Consortium at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
(MIT), and James Hendler, Computer Science Department, University of
Maryland, and responsible for research on agent-based computing at the US
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.
(12 April 2001)

o scientists

Free online availability substantially increases a paper's impact
Steve Lawrence, NEC Research Institute.
(31 May 2001)

Blurring the boundaries between the scientific 'papers' and biological
databases
Mark Gerstein & Jochen Junker, Molecular Biophysics & Biochemistry
Department, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520
(7 May 2001)

Should the scientific literature be privately owned and controlled?
Michael Eisen & Pat Brown, Public Library of Science
(4 May 2001)

observers from other sectors
Science must �push copyright aside�
Richard Stallman, , founder of the GNU project
(8 June 2001).

Information wants to be valuable
Tim O'Reilly, founder and president of O'Reilly & Associates.
(18 May 2001).

3. Coming soon:

o Librarians

Dale Flecker, Associate Director for Planning and Systems, Harvard
University Library

Hans E. Roosendaal, Executive Board, University of Twente

Tom Sanville, Executive Director, Ohiolink

o for profit science publishers

Eamon T. Fennessy, Chairman and CEO of The Copyright Group, Inc.

Fiona Godlee, Peter Newmark, and Matthew Cockerill, Biomed Central Limited

o not for profit science publishers

John R. Inglis, Director of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

Stuart Weibel, OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc.

Dick Kaser, Executive Director, US National Federation of Abstracting &
Information Services

o databases and repositories

Amos Bairoch, cofounder of the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics and GeneBio
(Geneva Bioinformatics SA)

Harold Abelson, (MIT OpenCourseWare project), Department of Electrical
Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

o technology developers

Russ Altmann, Stanford Medical Informatics, Stanford University Medical
Center, and President, International Society for Computational Biology
Lawrence Hunter, Director, Center for Computational Pharmacology, University
of Colorado

o scientists

Colin Hopkins, Professor of Molecular Cell Biology at Imperial College

Bruce Stillman, Director and CEO, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

o observers from other sectors

Andrew Odlyzko, AT&T Lab

David Allan, Managing Director, International Press Telecommunications
Council

Hal Varian, dean of the School of Information Management and Systems at the
University of California at Berkeley, and a leading economist on the 'new
economy'

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