From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id NAA10359; Wed, 4 Apr 2001 13:42:41 +0200 (MET DST) X-Authentication-Warning: pauillac.inria.fr: majordomo set sender to owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr using -f Received: from concorde.inria.fr (concorde.inria.fr [192.93.2.39]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id NAA10366 for ; Wed, 4 Apr 2001 13:42:39 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from irit.irit.fr (irit.irit.fr [141.115.4.5]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.10.0) with ESMTP id f34Bgcr15440 for ; Wed, 4 Apr 2001 13:42:38 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from erable.irit.fr (erable [141.115.8.39]) by irit.irit.fr (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA05268 for ; Wed, 4 Apr 2001 13:42:42 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from irit.fr (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by erable.irit.fr (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA01164 for ; Wed, 4 Apr 2001 13:42:37 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <3ACB08AD.E6976D2E@irit.fr> Date: Wed, 04 Apr 2001 13:42:37 +0200 From: David Chemouil Organization: IRIT X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (X11; U; SunOS 5.7 sun4m) X-Accept-Language: fr-FR, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Liste Caml Subject: [Caml-list] [NOISE] petition for free access to scientific results Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk Please forgive this out-of-subject mail, but it may be of interest to many researchers. >Dear Colleague, > >We write to ask for your support of an initiative to provide >unrestricted access to the published record of scientific research. >An open letter in support of this initiative has been signed by more >than 13,000 scientists from 127 countries. We hope you will take a >minute to read the letter and consider signing it. > >The open letter, a list of the scientists who have already signed it, >and some answers to frequently asked questions are posted at: >http://www.publiclibraryofscience.org. This site also provides a way >for colleagues to sign the open letter online. > >You may also wish to read an editorial written by Richard J. Roberts, >recently published in PNAS, which explains why he supports the >initiative (http://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/full/041601398v1). > >This is a grassroots initiative, and the breadth and depth of support >it receives from the scientific community will determine its success. >If you decide to support this effort, please consider spending an >hour or two of your time in the next week talking to colleagues at >your own and other institutions, explaining to them the reasons that >you chose to support it, and encouraging them to join you in signing >the letter. Your effort can really make a difference. > > > > >======== OPEN LETTER ======== > >We support the establishment of an online public library that would >provide the full contents of the published record of research and >scholarly discourse in medicine and the life sciences in a freely >accessible, fully searchable, interlinked form. Establishment of this >public library would vastly increase the accessibility and utility of >the scientific literature, enhance scientific productivity, and >catalyze integration of the disparate communities of knowledge and >ideas in biomedical sciences. > >We recognize that the publishers of our scientific journals have a >legitimate right to a fair financial return for their role in >scientific communication. We believe, however, that the permanent, >archival record of scientific research and ideas should neither be >owned nor controlled by publishers, but should belong to the public, >and should be freely available through an international online public >library. > >To encourage the publishers of our journals to support this endeavor, >we pledge that, beginning in September, 2001, we will publish in, >edit or review for, and personally subscribe to, only those scholarly >and scientific journals that have agreed to grant unrestricted free >distribution rights to any and all original research reports that >they have published, through PubMed Central and similar online public >resources, within 6 months of their initial publication date. ------------------- To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr. Archives: http://caml.inria.fr