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American Chemical Society broadens access to its articles

Stevan Harnad harnad at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Mon Mar 7 18:35:49 EST 2005


Ah me! 

Back Access 12 months late is too little, too late to benefit research
access, usage or progress. This is just another untoward side-effect of
the flawed NIH Public Access Policy. NIH has now given ACS a pretext
for feeling civic-minded in not giving its green light to immediate
self-archiving!

The cure for all this dithering will be institutional self-archiving
policies. It doesn't depend on publishers; it never did. It depends 
entirely upon researchers, their institutions and their research funders.
http://www.eprints.org/berlin3/program.html

    "Shulenburger on open access: so NEAR and yet so far"
    http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/3277.html

    "Please Don't Copy-Cat Clone NIH-12 Non-OA Policy!"
    http://makeashorterlink.com/?F2E01227A
    http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/4307.html

    "Open Access vs. NIH Back Access and Nature's Back-Sliding"
    http://makeashorterlink.com/?M3115427A
    http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/4312.html

Stevan Harnad

    
On Mon, 7 Mar 2005, Adam Chesler wrote:

> I believe the following will be of interest to readers of this list.  
> Links to further information are at the bottom of the press release; you
> may feel free to contact me directly if you have any questions.
> 
> American Chemical Society broadens access to its articles Conditions set
> for free availability one year after publication
> 
> http://pubs.acs.org/pressrelease/article_access.html
> http://pubs.acs.org/pressrelease/article_access.pdf
>   
> The American Chemical Society, the world's largest scientific society, is
> broadening access to research articles published in its 33 scholarly
> journals. The Society is introducing two new experimental policies that
> define how readers can view free digital versions of ACS articles
> beginning one year after publication.
> 
> First, in response to public access guidelines recently released by the
> NIH(1), the ACS will post, for public accessibility 12 months after
> publication, the peer-reviewed version of authors' manuscripts on the
> National Library of Medicine's PubMed Central during 2005. The NIH policy
> encourages authors whose work it funds to submit their peer-reviewed
> manuscripts to PubMed Central, the agency's free digital archive of
> biomedical and life sciences journal literature.
> 
> Commenting on this new service, ACS Publications Senior Vice President
> Brian Crawford said, "We understand that NIH-funded authors will wish to
> comply voluntarily with the NIH's policy request. By introducing this
> service, the ACS will take on the administrative burden of compliance and
> at the same time will ensure the integrity of the scientific literature by
> depositing the appropriate author version of the manuscript after
> peer-review."
> 
> Second, as a value-added service to ACS authors and a method of further
> opening access to its content, the full-text version of all research
> articles published in ACS journals will be made available at no charge via
> an author-directed Web link 12 months after final publication. Allowing
> unrestricted access to articles 12 months after publication is an
> expansion of the Society's current practice of permitting 50 downloads of
> authors' articles free of charge during the first year of publication.
> This initiative will go into effect during 2005.
> 
> "We are very pleased to expand access in this way to research published in
> ACS journals," said Crawford. "It is fundamental to the ACS mission to
> support and promote the research enterprise and to foster communication
> among its scientists. Providing unrestricted access via author-directed
> links 12 months after publication - in addition to the 50 free e-prints
> currently allowed during the first year of publication - reinforces that
> mission."
> 
> Robert Bovenschulte, president of the ACS Publications Division, said
> "These experimental policies balance the important goal of expanding
> dissemination of research with the need to preserve the integrity of the
> scientific record as well as the viability of our journals program."
> 
> The American Chemical Society is a nonprofit organization, chartered by
> the U.S. Congress, with a multidisciplinary membership of more than
> 158,000 chemists and chemical engineers. It publishes numerous scientific
> journals and databases, convenes major research conferences and provides
> educational, science policy and career programs in chemistry. Its main
> offices are in Washington, D.C., and Columbus, Ohio.
> 
> (1) Notice Number NOT-OD-05-022/
> 
> http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-05-022.html
>  
> Released: March 7, 2005
> 
> #13859
> 
> Related Press Releases:
> 
> · American Chemical Society broadens author-directed article access:
> http://pubs.acs.org/pressrelease/e_prints.html 
> 
> · American Chemical Society policy will offer service to authors of
> NIH-funded research articles: http://pubs.acs.org/pressrelease/nih.html
> 
> 
> ***********************************************
> Adam Chesler
> Assistant Director, Sales and Library Relations
> American Chemical Society
> 1155 16th Street NW
> Washington, DC 20036
> 
> Office Telephone/FAX:  (781) 381-2814
> Cell Phone:  (617) 230-3201
> E-Mail:  a_chesler at acs.org
> 
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