Dear Rohan: Please forward this message to all members of the Library Working Group as well as working groups considering higher education and research. Thanks very much. Arun -------------- From Peter Suber's blog Business leaders endorse OA to publicly-funded research The Committee for Economic Development has issued a new report, Open Standards, Open Source, and Open Innovation: Harnessing the Benefits of Openness, April 2006. (Thanks to Ian Brown.) The report was prepared by the CED's Digital Connections Council of the Committee for Economic Development. From the executive summary: "Open science" is making scientific information available well beyond the subscribers of traditional scientific journals. The National Institutes of Health (NIH) are encouraging widespread publication within 12 months of the results of the research that they fund. Open courseware is providing self-directed students around the world with the syllabi and course readings of great university teachers. All of these efforts rest on the assumption that society benefits by increasing access to information and allowing more people to contribute their special skills and experiences. Advocates for more openness contend that openness will result in greater innovation than would be achieved by restricting access to information or allowing first creators to exert greater control over it. Such a belief in the value of tapping the collective wisdom is profoundly democratic. In order to foster open innovation, the Council recommends not only that the NIH should continue their efforts to expand the dissemination of the research they support, but also that other federally funded, unclassified research should be made broadly available. Consistent with the position it has taken in its earlier reports, the Council recommends that any legislation or regulation regarding intellectual property rights be weighed with a presumption against the granting of new rights. The burden of proof should be on proponents of new rights to demonstrate with rigorous analysis the necessity of such an extension, because of the benefits to society of further innovation through greater access to technology. Finally, the Council suggests that the National Science Foundation (NSF) fund research into alternative compensation methods, similar to those created to facilitate the growth of radio, to reward creators of digital information products and accommodate the changes brought about by the digitization and growth of the Internet. Posted by Peter Suber at 4/18/2006 08:40:00 PM. Dear Rohan:   Please forward this message to all members of the Library Working Group as well as working groups considering higher education and research. Thanks very much.    Arun  -------------- From Peter Suber's blog   Business leaders endorse OA to publicly-funded research The http://www.ced.org/ Committee for Economic Development has issued a new report, http://www.ced.org/docs/report/report_ecom_openstandards.pdf Open Standards, Open Source, and Open Innovation: Harnessing the Benefits of Openness , April 2006. (Thanks to http://dooooooom.blogspot.com/2006/04/harnessing-benefits-of-openness.html Ian Brown .) The report was prepared by the CED's Digital Connections Council of the Committee for Economic Development. From the executive summary: “Open science” is making scientific information available well beyond the subscribers of traditional scientific journals. The National Institutes of Health (NIH) are encouraging widespread publication within 12 months of the results of the research that they fund. Open courseware is providing self-directed students around the world with the syllabi and course readings of great university teachers. All of these efforts rest on the assumption that society benefits by increasing access to information and allowing more people to contribute their special skills and experiences. Advocates for more openness contend that openness will result in greater innovation than would be achieved by restricting access to information or allowing first creators to exert greater control over it. Such a belief in the value of tapping the collective wisdom is profoundly democratic. In order to foster open innovation, the Council recommends not only that the NIH should continue their efforts to expand the dissemination of the research they support, but also that other federally funded, unclassified research should be made broadly available. Consistent with the position it has taken in its earlier reports, the Council recommends that any legislation or regulation regarding intellectual property rights be weighed with a presumption against the granting of new rights. The burden of proof should be on proponents of new rights to demonstrate with rigorous analysis the necessity of such an extension, because of the benefits to society of further innovation through greater access to technology. Finally, the Council suggests that the National Science Foundation (NSF) fund research into alternative compensation methods, similar to those created to facilitate the growth of radio, to reward creators of digital information products and accommodate the changes brought about by the digitization and growth of the Internet. http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2006_04_16_fosblogarchive.html#1145408136... http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/permalink.gif Posted by Peter Suber at 4/18/2006 08:40:00 PM.