Re: [DIYbio] [open-science] #OAMonday starts (for the Europeans) NOW!

I'm no American, but as far as i know this only applied to the NIH due to their own public access policy: http://publicaccess.nih.gov/

Cheers,
Bastian

On May 21, 2012, at 13:36 , Nathan McCorkle wrote:

> Wasn't US Govt funded research already required to be open access? I thought that was being threatened to be changed recently... it was that NIH funded projects only?
>
> On May 21, 2012 6:40 AM, "Bastian Greshake" <bgreshake@googlemail.com> wrote:
> Hey there,
> there is a petition to the Obama administration which lobbies for requiring free access over the Internet to scientific journal articles which arise from taxpayer-funded research. I think this fits the DIYBio-movement as the lack of access tends to be a huge problem for many of us.
>
> They need 25k signatures for the petition. You can sign here: http://wh.gov/6TH
>
> And the best thing: You don't need to be a US citizen to sign the petition, so give it a try. ;-)
>
> Cheers,
> Bastian
>
> Begin forwarded message:
>
> > From: William Gunn <william.gunn@gmail.com>
> > Subject: [open-science] #OAMonday starts (for the Europeans) NOW! Requesting help from my open access / open science friends to make this happen.
> > Date: May 21, 2012 07:48:19GMT+02:00
> > To: open-science@lists.okfn.org, oahack@librelist.com
> >
> > Please see the message from Cameron Neylon, Director of Advocacy at
> > PLoS, below. Note that anyone around the world can participate by
> > signing (not just another e-petition, but has guaranteed legislative
> > effect), and by sharing with others by blogging, tweeting, emailing,
> > putting a link up on your site or wiki, or otherwise getting the word
> > out to as many stakeholders as possible. You don't need to be a
> > resident of the US. The link to use is: http://wh.gov/6TH
> >
> > Thanks so much for your help. We need you to do what you can to make
> > open access to research a reality.
> >
> > From: "cameronneylon.net" <cn@cameronneylon.net>
> > Date: 19 May 2012 19:59:01 CEST
> > Subject: Whitehouse Open Access petition kicking off Monday
> >
> > Dear All
> >
> > I wouldn't normally send out a bulk email but there is a big
> > opportunity coming up to make real progress on expanding Open Access
> > to US Federally Funded Research and in turn to use that momentum to
> > move the agenda forward in the rest of the world.
> >
> > There is a real possibility of action in the US but to achieve this we
> > need to demonstrate wide public support through a petition on the
> > Whitehouse website. The petition will go live sometime on Sunday but
> > we are aiming for a big publicity push to draw attention to it on
> > Monday. The Whitehouse makes a formal response to these "We the
> > People" petitions if they reach 25k signatures within 30 days. Ideally
> > we'd like to go way through that number and as fast as possible to
> > demonstrate the diversity and depth of support.
> >
> > Anything you are willing and able to do in terms of blogging,
> > tweeting, emailing or otherwise activating the networks of people you
> > are coupled into, particularly in the US, will make a difference. Our
> > aim is to hit the social media channels mid-late morning in Europe on
> > Monday and then to build momentum as the sun rises across the US. Feel
> > free to forward the information on to people interested and advise
> > people that the aim is to keep the powder dry until Monday morning.
> >
> > There is more detail below but any questions feel free to ping me. I
> > will send the URL for the petition as soon as I have it but the
> > overall site address is:
> >
> > https://wwws.whitehouse.gov/petitions
> >
> > Cheers
> >
> > Cameron
> >
> >
> >
> > 1. Petition Text (800 character limit)
> >
> > WE PETITION THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION TO:
> >
> > Require free, timely access over the Internet to journal articles
> > arising from taxpayer-funded research.
> >
> > We believe in the power of the Internet to foster innovation,
> > research, and education. Requiring the published results of
> > taxpayer-funded research to be posted on the Internet in human and
> > machine readable form would provide access to patients and caregivers,
> > students and their teachers, researchers, entrepreneurs, and other
> > taxpayers who paid for the research. Expanding access would speed the
> > research process and increase the return on our investment in
> > scientific research.
> >
> > The highly successful Public Access Policy of the National Institutes
> > of Health proves that this can be done without disrupting the research
> > process, and we urge President Obama to act now to implement open
> > access policies for all federal agencies that fund scientific
> > research.
> >
> > 2. The Ask to Others
> >
> > To sign the petition:
> >
> > - Have to be 13 years or older
> > - Have to create an account on whitehouse.gov,
> > https://wwws.whitehouse.gov/petitions
> > - This first requires giving a name and an email address
> > and then clicking the validation link sent to that address
> > - Click to sign the petition
> >
> > 3. Further Context
> >
> > After years of work on promoting policy change to make
> > federally-funded research available on the Internet, and after winning
> > the battle to implement a public access policy at NIH, it has become
> > clear that being on the right side of the issue is necessary but not
> > sufficient. We've had the meetings, done the hearings, replied to the
> > requests for information.
> >
> > But we're opposed in our work by a small set of publishers who profit
> > enormously from the existing system, even though there is no evidence
> > that the NIH policy has had any measurable impact on their business
> > models. They can - and do - outspend those of us who have chosen to
> > make a huge part of our daily work the expansion of access to
> > knowledge. This puts the idea of access at a disadvantage. We know
> > there is a serious debate about the extension of public access to
> > taxpayer funded research going on right now in the White House, but we
> > also know that we need more than our current approaches to get that
> > extension made into federal policy.
> >
> > The best approach that we have yet to try is to make a broad public
> > appeal for support, straight to the people. The Obama Administration
> > has created a web platform to petition the White House directly called
> > We The People. Any petition receiving more than 25,000 digital
> > signatures is placed on the desk of the President's Chief of Staff and
> > must be integrated into policy and political discussions. But there's
> > a catch - a petition only has 30 days to gather the required number of
> > signatures to qualify.
> >
> > We can get 25,000 signatures. And if we not only get 25,000, but an
> > order of magnitude more, we can change the debate happening right now.
> >
> > Next week we will publish our petition and the 30 day cycle begins.
> > What we're asking you to do is to leverage your personal and
> > professional networks to get the word out.
> >
> > You can do this in any way that makes you feel comfortable. A blog
> > post, an email to constituencies, a tweet, a facebook share, you name
> > it - something that tells thousands of people "I support this
> > petition, I'm signing this petition, and I thought you should know
> > about it too." Because this isn't just slacktivism with a "like" or a
> > retweet - people need to go to the White House website, enter their
> > name and email address, and hit the button.
> >
> > Qualified signers must be 13 years old or more, and have a valid email
> > address. That's all.
> >
> > The goal is not just to get 25,000, but to get far more to show the
> > White House that this issue matters to people, not just a few
> > publishers.
> >
> > We are launching the campaign on Monday May 21. The petition will go
> > live late Sunday night May 20, so that the waves can start in the EU
> > and sweep west with the sunrise. We're asking you to turn on your
> > networks on Monday morning.
> >
> > Thanks for considering this. If we can all come together to get the
> > word out at once, and stay behind it for 30 days, we have a real
> > chance to get access to taxpayer funded research across the entire
> > government, and send a signal that the people have a voice in this
> > debate, not just publishers and activists.
> >
> >
> >
> > William Gunn
> > +1 646 755 9862
> > http://synthesis.williamgunn.org/about/
> >
> > _______________________________________________
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> > http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/open-science
>
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