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Re: DC Principles

Allow me to reiterate that many open access advocates - and I claim to be
one of them -, when they speak about OA journals, also advocate that the
cost of publishing should also be supported by agencies or foundations
financing research in the first place. This is what the Bethesda, Wellcome
Trust and Berlin Declarations were all about.

Claiming that OA adocates want the publishing costs should be supported
"solely by authors and their institutions" is something of a red herring,
IMHO.

Best,

Jean-Claude

On Tue March 16 2004 09:43 pm, Ann Okerson wrote:
> 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