[OAI-eprints] Interviews on Open Access in Research Information Magazine

[Stevan Harnad]

    ** Apologies for Cross-Posting **

Research Information has just published a series of interviews by
editor Sian Harris on Open Access:
http://www.researchinformation.info/rijunjul06openaccess.html

    * 'Open access is much wider than just readers not paying'
      Martin Richardson, Oxford Journals
    * 'Academics have access anyway'
      Michael Mabe, formerly of Elsevier
    * 'Text mining of subject archives will enable new facts to be
      discovered'
      Robert Terry, The Wellcome Trust
    * 'Self-archiving should be mandatory'
      Steven Harnad, U Quebec/Montreal & U Southampton
    * 'The environmental community will embrace open-access'
      Tim Smith, Institute of Physics Publishing
    * 'Many areas of research are funded by taxpayers but they do not
      see the results'
      Matthew Cockerill, BioMed Central
    * 'The first priority should be awareness-raising'
      Alma Swan, Key Perspectives
    * 'Our community is used to immediate release of preprints'
      Jens Vigen, CERN
    * 'Get research authors to change their behaviour'
      Leslie Carr, University of Southampton

A few errors crept into the interview with me, so I have posted a
corrected version of my bit (corrections in red) at: 
http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Temp/shcorrex.html

Research Information has also added a small poll about OA publishing and
OA self-archiving, but there too, the first question somewhat
misdescribed the alternatives: It is not Subscription vs. Author Pays.
It should be "Subscriber-Institution Pays" vs. "Author-Institution
Pays".

---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2006 14:57:08 +0100
From: Sian Harris 
Subject: Open access interview

Dear Stevan
 
Thank you for your help with my open access article. The interviews have
just gone live on our new-look website at
http://www.researchinformation.info/rijunjul06openaccess.html

We have also
just launched a simple poll on the home page to gauge views on the
open-access debate - go to  
http://www.researchinformation.info
to cast your vote!
 
A copy of the magazine will also be sent to you when they come back from the
printers.
 
Best wishes,
Sian
 
Dr Sian Harris
Editor, Research Information
Bristol, BS1 4ND, UK
Tel: +44 (0)117 956 1516
sian AT europascience.com
http://www.researchinformation.info