Re: Open access: a must for Wellcome Trust researchers

[adam hodgkin <adam.hodgkin@gmail.com>]

Sally

Why do you say this, when the Trust's statement gives a full 12 month's
notice and invites its grant holders to raise potential issues with the
Trust? This is a long way from inciting/forcing breach of contract by any
reasonable understanding of the english language and English law.

Would it be normal for researchers to enter into binding commitments with
publishers for the future submission of unwritten research papers? Would
it be good practice for researchers and publishers to make such
agreements? How does peer review sit with such binding contractual
commitments?

If there really is an issue about unwritten but contracted research
papers, could we have some facts and figures -- or at least some
significant examples.

Adam

Adam Hodgkin

On 10/3/05, Sally Morris (ALPSP) <sally.morris@alpsp.org> wrote:
>
> 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
>
> Sally Morris, Chief Executive
> Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers
> Email: sally.morris@alpsp.org