tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7961882.post3351146363452476124..comments2024-03-17T08:30:21.129+00:00Comments on Open and Shut?: The Open Access Interviews: Deputy Director General of the Bureau of Policy at the National Natural Science Foundation of ChinaRichard Poynderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05433823131339077354noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7961882.post-20821677476296957232014-06-19T16:04:29.581+00:002014-06-19T16:04:29.581+00:00Correct. The above interview was focussed on the O...Correct. The above interview was focussed on the OA policy of NSFC rather than the policy at CAS. The NSFC policy can be read <a href="http://www.eifl.net/system/files/201405/140515-nsfc_oa_policy_english.pdf" rel="nofollow">here.</a><br /><br />You will see the policy states, "From the day this policy statement is issued, research papers generated from projects fully or partially funded by NSFC, when submitted and published in academic journals, the authors of the papers should deposit the final manuscripts, which have been peer reviewed and accepted by the journals, to the NSFC repository with an embargo period of no more than 12 months. Earlier open access should be provided if the publisher allows. If the paper is published in an open access journal or the publisher allows the deposit of the published version in PDF format, such version should be deposited into the NSFC repository and open access should be provided immediately."<br /><br />However, as Prof. Yonghe Zheng points out, the NSFC repository may not go live until 2016.<br /><br />When I sought clarification on this issue (above) Prof. Zheng replied, "In the meantime, we encourage them to deposit their papers in their respective institutional repositories."<br /><br />This leads me to assume that until the repository goes live the NSFC policy is one of encouragement rather than necessity.Richard Poynderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05433823131339077354noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7961882.post-5276991213582776972014-06-19T15:31:45.197+00:002014-06-19T15:31:45.197+00:00Important (and very welcome) Addendum and Correcti...<b>Important (and very welcome) Addendum and Correction from Eloy Rodrigues (June 19):</b><br /><br /><em>The CAS mandate is for immediate deposit:<br /><br />CAS requires its researchers and graduate students to deposit an electronic version of the final, peer-reviewed manuscripts of their research articles, resulted from any public funded scientific research projects, submitted and consequently published in academic journals after the issuing of this policy, into the open access repositories of their respective institutes at the time the article is published, to be made publicly available within 12 months of the official data of publication.<br /> <br />And CAS already has a network of IRs. Xiaolin Zhang the CAS Library Director has been a very active OA and IR advocate.</em>Stevan Harnadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14374474060972737847noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7961882.post-38474022646578661162014-06-18T12:17:10.467+00:002014-06-18T12:17:10.467+00:00What I am wondering is whether, in order to comply...What I am wondering is whether, in order to comply with green OA mandates/policies, many researchers may in practice opt for gold OA. So while most recent OA policies have been characterised by OA advocates as green mandates, might these mandates end up behaving more like gold mandates?<br /><br />While it would clearly not be the most cost-effective way of providing OA, I wonder if many researchers might not prefer it, both because it is easier for them, and because it provides immediate OA. <br /><br />But is there any data available to guide us on the likelihood of this? Earlier this year I asked the NIH what percentage of the papers deposited in PubMed Central in order to comply with the NIH public access policy were published in subscription journals and then self-archived, and what percentage were published in OA or hybrid journals. <br /><br />NIH responded, “PMC does not categorize journals or papers by their payment model (author pay, subscription with page charges, hybrid, etc.) or their license (e.g. CC-BY, etc.).”<br />June 18, 2014 12:13 pmRichard Poynderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05433823131339077354noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7961882.post-26884755597197071622014-06-18T10:52:36.897+00:002014-06-18T10:52:36.897+00:00Open Access in China: Time is of the Essence
The ...<b>Open Access in China: Time is of the Essence</b><br /><br />The two Chinese OA Mandates (<a href="http://roarmap.eprints.org/1080/" rel="nofollow">NSFC</a> and <a href="http://roarmap.eprints.org/1079/" rel="nofollow">CAS</a>) came fast (2014), but the possibility of complying with them is coming slowly (no repository till 2016).<br /><br />In addition, articles need not be deposited until 12 months after publication.<br /><br />In most fields, especially the fast-moving sciences, the benefits of Open Access (maximised uptake, usage, impact and progress) are biggest and most important within the first year of publication. That is the growth tip if research. <em>Access losses in the first year are never fully caught up in later years</em>. The iron needs to be struck when it is hot.<br /><br />There are two very simple steps that China can take to minimise the needless loss of research uptake, usage and impact loss because of lost time:<br /><br />(1) China should up the repositories immediately, using the available free softwares such as <a href="http://www.eprints.org" rel="nofollow">EPrints</a> and <a href="http://www.dspace.org" rel="nofollow">DSpace</a>. It requires only a server and a few hours worth of set-up time and the repository is ready for deposits. There is no reason whatsoever to wait two years. ;It would also be sensible to have <a href="https://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&lr=&q=harnad%20OR%20Harnad%20OR%20archivangelism+blogurl:http://openaccess.eprints.org/&ie=UTF-8&tbm=blg&tbs=qdr:m&num=100&c2coff=1&safe=active&gws_rd=ssl#c2coff=1&hl=en&lr=&q=central+institutional+deposit+blogurl:http:%2F%2Fopenaccess.eprints.org%2F&safe=active&tbm=blg" rel="nofollow">distributed local repositories</a> — at universities and research institutions — rather than just one central one. Each institution can easily set up its own repository. All repositories are interoperable and if and when desired, their contents can be automatically exported to or harvested by central repositories.<br /><br />(2) Although an OA embargo of 12 months is allowed, China should mandate that deposit itself must be <a href="https://www.google.ca/search?lr=&c2coff=1&safe=active&hl=en&tbm=blg&sclient=psy-ab&q=%22immediate+deposit%22+blogurl:http:%2F%2Fopenaccess.eprints.org%2F&oq=%22immediate+deposit%22+blogurl:http:%2F%2Fopenaccess.eprints.org%2F&gs_l=serp.3...362811.367408.2.369372.19.12.0.0.0.0.0.0..0.0....0...1c.1.47.psy-ab..54.0.0.YrpglCnJKDk&pbx=1&bav=on.2,or.r_cp.r_qf.&bvm=bv.69137298%2Cd.aWw%2Cpv.xjs.s.en_US.zU3ZnWRgvtc.O&biw=1133&bih=790&dpr=1&ech=1&psi=dWyhU_a8O4mvyAT6voHwAQ.1403087990985.9&ei=1GyhU9DmIMuRyAShioGoCQ&emsg=NCSR&noj=1" rel="nofollow">immediate</a> (immediately upon acceptance for publication). Access to the deposit can be set as close access during the embargo if desired, but <a href="http://wiki.eprints.org/w/RequestEprint" rel="nofollow">EPrints</a> and <a href="https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSDOC4x/Request+a+Copy#RequestaCopy-Introduction" rel="nofollow">DSpace</a> repositories have the “<a href="https://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&lr=&q=harnad%20OR%20Harnad%20OR%20archivangelism+blogurl:http://openaccess.eprints.org/&ie=UTF-8&tbm=blg&tbs=qdr:m&num=100&c2coff=1&safe=active&gws_rd=ssl#c2coff=1&hl=en&lr=&q=Button+blogurl%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fopenaccess.eprints.org%2F&safe=active&tbas=0&tbm=blg" rel="nofollow">Request-Copy” Button</a> for closed-access deposits so that individual users can request and authors can provide an individual copy for research purposes with one click each. The repository automatically emails the copy if the author clicks Yes.Stevan Harnadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14374474060972737847noreply@blogger.com