Note that that AAAS's Science too has an ongoing dEbate on this
same rapidly developing topic at:
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/eletters/291/5512/2318a
and
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/eletters/291/5512/2318b
All interested parties are encouraged to make their views known
in both the Nature and the Science Fora -- and to branch them also
here to the American Scientist Forum:
american-scientist-open-access-forum_at_amsci.org
http://amsci-forum.amsci.org/archives/American-Scientist-Open-Access-Forum.html
S.H.
On Fri, 6 Apr 2001, Declan Butler, Nature wrote:
> Nature launches web debate "Future e-access to the primary literature"
>
> The communication of research results impacts on everyone involved in
> science. Today, Nature launches an online debate on the most crucial and
> talked-about aspect of scientific publishing -- the impact of the
> web on the publication of original research. The debate is freely
> accessible
> via Nature's home page (http://www.nature.com) or directly at
> http://www.nature.com/nature/debates/e-access/index.html
>
> The site will debate the recent and prominent initiative by researchers
> to force publishers to release archived reports of original research
> into centralized, freely available and unrestricted databases.
> This initiative, known as 'The Public Library of Science' (PLS ), will
> be discussed from a range of perspectives, from the advocates of free
> access to those who worry about its potential negative impacts on science.
>
> But we have also commissioned articles that go beyond the PLS debate
> from, among others, experts in scientific information management and
> commerce. Reactions to the posted articles are welcome and a selection
> posted, following selection by moderators Tony Delamothe, Web Editor,
> British Medical
> Journal and Declan Butler, European correspondent, Nature.
>
> Declan Butler
>
>
>
>
> Today's set of papers includes views from:
>
> Ann Okerson, Associate University Librarian at Yale University
> Derk Haank, CEO, Elsevier Science
> Frank Gannon, Executive Director, European Molecular Biology
> Organization
> Ira Mellman, Editor, The Journal of Cell Biology, Yale University School
> of Medicine
> Edwin Sequeira, Jo McEntyre and David J. Lipman, National Center for
> Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National
> Institutes of Health, Bethesda, USA
> Jo McEntyre and David J. Lipman, National Center for Biotechnology
> Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of
> Health, Bethesda, USA
> Les Grivell, Director, E-BioSci; a European archive initiative
> Martin Richardson, Publishing Director, Oxford University Press
> Robert D. Wells, President, American Society for Biochemistry and
> Molecular Biology, and Herbert Tabor, M.D. Editor, J. Biol. Chem
>
>
> The content will build up over the next few weeks; scheduled authors
> include:
>
> Amos Bairoch, cofounder of the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics and
> GeneBio (Geneva Bioinformatics SA).
> Andrew Odlyzko, AT&T Labs
> Dale Flecker, Associate Director for Planning and Systems, Harvard
> University Library
> Hans Roosendaal, Director Scientific Information, University of Twente,
> Dinkel Institute
> Jim Hendler, US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
> John R. Inglis, Director of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press
> Jon Bosak, Sun Microsystems
> Martin Blume, Editor-in-Chief, American Physical Society journals
> Michael Keller, Publisher, HighWire Press
> Rick Luce, director, Research Library of Los Alamos National Laboratory
> Robert Campbell, Blackwell Science
> Stuart Weibel, OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc.
> Tom Sanville, Executive Director, Ohiolink
>
Received on Wed Jan 03 2001 - 19:17:43 GMT