RE: Open access: a must for Wellcome Trust researchers

["David Goodman" <David.Goodman@liu.edu>]

I ask Sally what specific licensing terms of which publishers there might
be, that actual authors have already agreed to, and that she thinks the
Wellcome Trust requirements breech.  If considerations of commercial
secrecy or the like prevent giving full details, they can be masked.

Perhaps she might mean that its terms may prevent recipients from
publishing with certain existing publishers. I do not see how the decision
not to enter into publishing contracts than might be incompatible with the
grantor's terms can be seen as a breech of contract-- to me it looks like
a sincere efford to avoid such a breech.  Those who conduct the very high
quality research supported by the Wellcome Foundation will have no lack of
perfectly legal alternatives.

However, I doubt such a situation will arise, as essentially all relevant
publishers have already changed their terms to permit compliance with the
NIH requirements, which the Wellcome adopts.

Dr. David Goodman
Associate Professor
Palmer School of Library and Information Science
Long Island University
dgoodman@liu.edu


-----Original Message-----
From: owner-liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu on behalf of Sally Morris (ALPSP)
Sent: Mon 10/3/2005 4:01 PM
To: liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu
Subject: Re: Open access: a must for Wellcome Trust researchers
 
I'd like to ask how the Wellcome Trust feels about the fact that it
appears to be inciting (nay, forcing) its researchers to breach the terms
of the contracts some of them they may have signed with publishers.

Sally Morris, Chief Executive
Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers
Email:  sally.morris@alpsp.org