I think the proposal sounds good. the only issue i'd be cautious about
is setting up a separate website from Fran's MER homepage. That, of
course, is up to you and Fran but getting website's maintained can be
difficult and it would be a shame if the effort to better promote all
of our work were to succumb to broken links because of local changes in
equipment and IT upgrades.

The other issues would be things like how to best transfer content to
web formats - some PDFs can have text extracted which makes it easy to
quote an author - if possible I'd encourage that. Going forward it
would be good if we could use an approach that reduced file sizes
however.

With those two disclaimers I am certainly in support of a move
forward...

bear

--- William Cowling WRCOWLIN <WRCOWLIN@...> wrote:

> Howard and All:
>
> What I'd like to suggest is that if anyone would like to respond to
> the
> proposal I sent to the listserv, please do so by Monday, November
> 7th. If
> there is no response or no suggestions for revision of the proposal,
> I
> will draft it in a letter to be sent to the Editors of Visions and
> request
> that they recommend it to the SRS Board through Dr. Fran Biley,
> President.
> I will share the letter with Howard before I submit it and I will
> submit
> it as a joint proposal from the two of us.
>
> How does that sound?
>
> Thanks - Richard
>
>
> W. Richard Cowling, III, RN, PhD, APRN-BC
> Professor and Director PhD Program
> Editor, Journal of Holistic Nursing
> School of Nursing
> University of North Carolina Greensboro
> P.O. Box 26170
> Greensboro, NC 27402-6170
> Phone: 336-334-4785
> FAX: 336-334-3628
>
>
>
> "Butcher, Howard K" <howard-butcher@...>
> Sent by: Martha_E_Rogers@yahoogroups.com
> 11/02/2005 05:00 PM
> Please respond to
> Martha_E_Rogers@yahoogroups.com
>
>
> To
> <Martha_E_Rogers@yahoogroups.com>
> cc
>
> Subject
> RE: [Martha_E_Rogers] Moving to open access journals
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> I sure would join you in this proposal. Richard . . . what you you
> like
> me to do in terms of moving the proposal forward?
>
> Howard
>
> 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
> howard-butcher@...
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Martha_E_Rogers@yahoogroups.com on behalf of William Cowling
> WRCOWLIN
> Sent: Wed 11/2/2005 3:43 PM
> To: Martha_E_Rogers@yahoogroups.com
> Cc: Martha_E_Rogers@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: RE: [Martha_E_Rogers] Moving to open access journals
>
> Howard:
>
> Would you like to join me in making a the following proposal to SRS
> Board
> through the Editors of Visions?
> That the current and all back issues be scanned
> That the issues be housed on a website at University of North
> Carolina
> Greensboro freely accessible to the public
> That future issues be submitted for inclusion on the website
>
> I am happy to provide resources for scanning and maintaining Visions
> on
> the website at UNCG. I am happy to provide resources for scanning
> only
> and submit scanned materials to another website that someone else
> would
> manage.
>
> Thanks - Richard
> (P.S. Comments/suggestions from listserv members to this proposal
> are
> welcome before submission to SRS Board)
>
>
> W. Richard Cowling, III, RN, PhD, APRN-BC
> Professor and Director PhD Program
> Editor, Journal of Holistic Nursing
> School of Nursing
> University of North Carolina Greensboro
> P.O. Box 26170
> Greensboro, NC 27402-6170
> Phone: 336-334-4785
> FAX: 336-334-3628
>
>
>
> "Butcher, Howard K" <howard-butcher@...>
> Sent by: Martha_E_Rogers@yahoogroups.com
> 11/02/2005 04:31 PM
> Please respond to
> Martha_E_Rogers@yahoogroups.com
>
>
> To
> <Martha_E_Rogers@yahoogroups.com>
> cc
>
> Subject
> RE: [Martha_E_Rogers] Moving to open access journals
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> I will make the request . . . But out of the lack of progress on the
>
> issue of getting wider dissemination of Rogerian work . . . I feel, I
> and
> (we), need to find other options but to make the work more
> accessible. . .
>
> howard
>
> 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
> howard-butcher@...
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Martha_E_Rogers@yahoogroups.com on behalf of Jacqueline Fawcett
> Sent: Wed 11/2/2005 3:21 PM
> To: Martha_E_Rogers@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: RE: [Martha_E_Rogers] Moving to open access journals
>
> Howard, You certainly have the right to do what you are doing with
> your
> own articles, but it would be nice if you would request permission
> from
> SRS due to the copyright issue. The request should go to the Visions
> editors, who can then forward the request to the SRS board; or you
> can
> make the request directly to the board, via our new president, Fran
> Biley.
>
> Best regards, Jacqui
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Martha_E_Rogers@yahoogroups.com on behalf of Butcher,
> Howard K
>
>
> Sent: Wed 11/2/2005 9:52 AM
> To: Martha_E_Rogers@yahoogroups.com
> Cc:
> Subject: RE: [Martha_E_Rogers] Moving to open access journals
>
>
>
>
>
> 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.
>
> 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
> howard-butcher@...
>
>
>
> -----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
>
> 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.
>
> Here is the BioMed Central description of Open Access
> publishing:
>
> "BioMed Central Open Access Charter
>
> Every peer-reviewed research article appearing in any journal
> published by BioMed Central is 'open access', meaning that:
>
> 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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> 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.
>
> BioMed Central is committed permanently to maintaining this
> open
> access publishing policy, retrospectively and prospectively, in
> all
> eventualities, including any future changes in ownership.
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> The Board of Trustees consists of the following members:
>
> 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"
>
> link: http://www.biomedcentral.com/info/about/charter
>
>
> and here is a link to a survey about open access authors:
>
> http://www.ucl.ac.uk/ciber/ciber_2005_survey_final.pdf
>
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