Hmmm,

Perhaps we could use this as an opportunity to encourage the members,
board, editors to make a change in policy that would formalize the
rights of authors to maintain and distribute their work in this way.

I absolutely agree that the important issue is dissemination - not
isolation.

As I think i have mentioned in the past i developed a web site for Dr.
Milton Diamond at University of Hawaii many years ago - in my pre-nurse
days. Mickey, an internationally reknown Human Sexuality researcher and
educator, adopted the policy of hosting his own articles on that site
many years ago because he recognized the importance of the web as a
vehicle for academic and scientific communication.

bear

--- "Butcher, Howard K" <howard-butcher@...> wrote:

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> Yes . . in a similar way . . . I have been saying for some time that
> we should place back issues of Visions on the web to people can have
> access to them. Copyright or not . . . I have now decided to do this
> myself with my own Vision articles. I have been converting all the
> articles I've written to pdf files and I am going to put them on my
> web site. I am sure that this may be a violation, but right now, I
> really don't care. It is prartically useless to keep writing
> articles when so few people actually have access to the Journal. I
> don't think putting back issues on the web will effect our
> membership.
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> Howard Karl Butcher, RN; PhD, APRN, BC
> Associate Professor
> 324NB
> The University of Iowa Collge of Nursing
> Iowa City, Iowa 52242-1121
> 319-335-7039
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Martha_E_Rogers@yahoogroups.com on behalf of bear
> Sent: Wed 11/2/2005 7:33 AM
> To: Martha_E_Rogers@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [Martha_E_Rogers] Moving to open access journals
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> I know we have had the discussion before - and may not resolve it in
> a
> forward thinking direction now - but i think the trend is definitely
> moving against inertia in this regard. Here is a link to a story
> about
> open access journals from BioMed Central a large publisher of online,
> open access journals.
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> Here is the BioMed Central description of Open Access publishing:
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> "BioMed Central Open Access Charter
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> Every peer-reviewed research article appearing in any journal
> published by BioMed Central is 'open access', meaning that:
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> 1. The article is universally and freely accessible via the
> Internet, in an easily readable format and deposited immediately upon
> publication, without embargo, in an agreed format - current
> preference
> is XML with a declared DTD - in at least one widely and
> internationally recognized open access repository (such as PubMed
> Central).
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> 2. The author(s) or copyright owner(s) irrevocably grant(s) to any
> third party, in advance and in perpetuity, the right to use,
> reproduce
> or disseminate the research article in its entirety or in part, in
> any
> format or medium, provided that no substantive errors are introduced
> in the process, proper attribution of authorship and correct citation
> details are given, and that the bibliographic details are not
> changed.
> If the article is reproduced or disseminated in part, this must be
> clearly and unequivocally indicated.
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> BioMed Central is committed permanently to maintaining this open
> access publishing policy, retrospectively and prospectively, in all
> eventualities, including any future changes in ownership.
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> BioMed Central has established an independent Board of Trustees. If
> and when a change of ownership should be considered, the Board of
> Trustees will be asked to judge and advise whether sufficient
> guarantees to continue a policy of unconditional open access for
> research articles are being offered and agreed by any prospective new
> owner. BioMed Central will not enter into a change of ownership
> agreement unless the Board of Trustees accepts these guarantees.
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> Any change in the composition of the Board of Trustees will be
> subject
> to approval by a majority of the existing members of the Board of
> Trustees.
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> The Board of Trustees consists of the following members:
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> Brian Haynes, McMaster University, Canada
> Steven Hyman, Harvard University, USA
> Marc Kirschner, Harvard Medical School, USA
> Philippe Kourilsky, Institut Pasteur, France
> David Nathan, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, USA
> Sir Paul Nurse, Cancer Research, UK
> Sir Richard Peto, University of Oxford, UK
> Harold Varmus, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, USA
> Mitsuhiro Yanagida, Kyoto University, Japan"
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> link: http://www.biomedcentral.com/info/about/charter
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> and here is a link to a survey about open access authors:
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> http://www.ucl.ac.uk/ciber/ciber_2005_survey_final.pdf
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