As for Paul Waring, don’t blame him, he’s a computer scientist. They don’t do Biology.

Hey Duncan,

Well done for attracting comments from Stevan and Peter.

See you at the Conference in two weeks and I’ll certainly be supporting your suggestion for the un-conference session.

Cheers

Graham

@Peter Hopefully we can find out who is responsible for policing self-archiving in pubmedcentral for BBSRC funded research, I’ll blog it if I find out

@Paul Open Access is taking off in the life sciences, http://www.biomedcentral.com is having lots of success with several of its journals, they automatically deposit author articles in public repositories like http://www.PubMedCentral.gov too – it this is left to the authors, they often tend not to bother (at the moment)

See the policy announcement from June 2006,
http://www.bbsrc.ac.uk/media/news/2006/060628_research_access.html

I don’t know how effectively the policy has been implemented. If you find out, I hope you’ll blog what you find.

Best,
Peter

To say “I don’t care too much if it is green or gold. We need Open Access publishing now” is to say “I don’t care too much if it is green or gold. We need gold now.” Gold OA is OA journal publishing. Green OA is the self-archiving, in OA repositories, of articles published in non-OA journals. The NIH mandates Green OA not Gold OA. Funders (and institutions) cannot, should not, and need not mandate where researchers publish — just that they must make their articles OA, regardless of where they publish them, through green OA self-archiving. BBSRC too: “all projects funded at BBSRC-sponsored institutes and starting from 1 October 2006, BBSRC will require a copy of any resulting published journal article or conference proceedings to be deposited, at the earliest opportunity, in an appropriate e-print repository, wherever such a repository is available.”