[LIS-Forum] ACS opened for open Access

[Subbiah Arunachalam]

Friends:

The ACS announcement IS NOTHNG TO CELEBRATE ABOUT. Providing open access 
after a year-long wait is equivalent to not providing it at all. Open access 
means instant (immediately on publication) and free of cost access. Chemists 
around the world and members of the American Chemical Society should write 
to the ACS office bearers and tell them to change their policy and to 
emulate the physicists who have been enjoyig the benefits of OA for the past 
15 years through arXiv which has more tha 15 mirror sites including one in 
India (at the Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai). One can deposit 
in arXiv preprints and postprints, comment on others' papers, submit a 
rvised/ improved version, and so on. It is another matter many Indian 
physicists are not using arXiv even though it is absolutely free and it 
brings in great benefit to the authors and readers.

Arun
[Subbiah Arunachalam]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Madhuresh" <madhuresh_s at aurigene.com>
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Sent: Tuesday, March 08, 2005 11:44 AM
Subject: [LIS-Forum] ACS opened for open Access


> Dear Friends,
>
> At last ACS (American Chemical society) opened its door for open access.
> ACS was considered as a toughest publisher for Open access. Now ACS
> announced its compliance with Public Access Guidelines released by the
> NIH i.e. free availability of articles after one year of publication
> with some conditions for its 33 scholarly journals. Here is the press
> release:
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> --------------------------------------------
>
> American Chemical Society broadens access to its articles
> Conditions set for free availability one year after publication
>
> http://pubs.acs.org/pressrelease/article_access.html
> http://pubs.acs.org/pressrelease/article_access.pdf
>
>
> The American Chemical Society, the world's largest scientific society,
> is broadening access to research articles published in its 33 scholarly
> journals. The Society is introducing two new experimental policies that
> define how readers can view free digital versions of ACS articles
> beginning one year after publication.
>
> First, in response to public access guidelines recently released by the
> NIH1, the ACS will post, for public accessibility 12 months after
> publication, the peer-reviewed version of authors' manuscripts on the
> National Library of Medicine's PubMed Central during 2005. The NIH
> policy encourages authors whose work it funds to submit their
> peer-reviewed manuscripts to PubMed Central, the agency's free digital
> archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature.
>
> Commenting on this new service, ACS Publications Senior Vice President
> Brian Crawford said, "We understand that NIH-funded authors will wish to
> comply voluntarily with the NIH's policy request. By introducing this
> service, the ACS will take on the administrative burden of compliance
> and at the same time will ensure the integrity of the scientific
> literature by depositing the appropriate author version of the
> manuscript after peer-review."
>
> Second, as a value-added service to ACS authors and a method of further
> opening access to its content, the full-text version of all research
> articles published in ACS journals will be made available at no charge
> via an author-directed Web link 12 months after final publication.
> Allowing unrestricted access to articles 12 months after publication is
> an expansion of the Society's current practice of permitting 50
> downloads of authors' articles free of charge during the first year of
> publication. This initiative will go into effect during 2005.
>
> "We are very pleased to expand access in this way to research published
> in ACS journals," said Crawford. "It is fundamental to the ACS mission
> to support and promote the research enterprise and to foster
> communication among its scientists. Providing unrestricted access via
> author-directed links 12 months after publication - in addition to the
> 50 free e-prints currently allowed during the first year of publication
> - reinforces that mission."
>
> Robert Bovenschulte, president of the ACS Publications Division, said
> "These experimental policies balance the important goal of expanding
> dissemination of research with the need to preserve the integrity of the
> scientific record as well as the viability of our journals program."
>
> The American Chemical Society is a nonprofit organization, chartered by
> the U.S. Congress, with a multidisciplinary membership of more than
> 158,000 chemists and chemical engineers. It publishes numerous
> scientific journals and databases, convenes major research conferences
> and provides educational, science policy and career programs in
> chemistry. Its main offices are in Washington, D.C., and Columbus, Ohio.
>
> 1(Notice Number NOT-OD-05-022/
> http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-05-022.html)
>
> Released: March 7, 2005
>
> #13859
>
> Related Press Releases:
>
> *         American Chemical Society broadens author-directed article
> access: http://pubs.acs.org/pressrelease/e_prints.html
>
> *         American Chemical Society policy will offer service to authors
> of NIH-funded research articles:
> http://pubs.acs.org/pressrelease/nih.html
>
>
> Regards
> Madhuresh Singhal
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