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Fwd: The great debate; the future of scientific literature
Hi All,
I have just received the following from Nature Mag's TOC's regarding the
future of electronic journals and papers and though the assembled mind migh
be interested.
As an aside, I am essentially off line for the forseeable future. A this
writing, I am using my laptop which has none of the goodies my PC has.
Unfortunately, the latter is on its death bed and I cannot use my main email.
While I can obviously get to my mail with the laptop, it will not be nearly
as often as usual so please, if you need to contatc me use my name in the
subject line for a quicker responce.
Sorry for that diversion and see most of you hopefully at SVP!
Tom
Computer crippled!
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> New from Nature on the future of the electronic literature
>
> As readers of Nature will know, there is currently considerable debate
about
> many aspects of the future of the electronic literature, including ways to
> improve access to the scientific literature, proposals for making research
> papers free, and changing the application of copyright. We would like to
draw
> your attention to new content relating to these issues on Nature's website
> and to a new publishing initiative by the Nature Publishing Group that will
> provide wider access on the web to literature published by the group.
>
>
> 1. 18 September: update on Nature's web forum, "Future e-access to the
> primary literature" (http://www.nature.com/nature/debates/e-access/).
> 2. Nature's own view of the future of the electronic scientific
literature,
> and the right and wrong ways forward: leading article.
> 3. Press release, 14 September: Nature Publishing Group participates in E-
> Biosci website
> 4. Feedback
>
> 1. Update on Nature's web forum, "Future e-access to the primary
literature"
>
> The debate over the future of the e-literature involves many players, from
> the scientific community and institutions of higher education and research,
> to libraries and publishers. Nature has led the way in this debate by
> bringing the views of these groups before a broad audience, and
highlighting
> the publishing challenges and opportunities. Nature's free web forum on "
> Future e-access to the primary literature" can be accessed at http://www.
> nature.com/nature/debates/e-access/ .
>
> New contributions scheduled for publication this week include:
>
> * "Healthy warning: 'This journal supports full text, tariff-free
archives,'"
> by Colin Hopkins, Professor of Molecular Cell Biology, Imperial College,
> London, UK
>
> * "Evolution of scholarly communication 'impossible to plan,'" by Andrew
> Odlyzko , Director, Digital Technology Center, University of Minnesota
>
> * "A view from the news industry," by David Allen, Managing Director,
> International Press Telecommunications Council
>
> * "A new value chain for scientific information," by Hans E. Roosendaal,
> Peter A. Th. M. Geurts and Paul van der Vet, University of Twente, The
> Netherlands
>
> * "BioMed Central: a new business model for biomedical research
publishing?"
> by Fiona Godlee, Peter Newmark, and Matthew Cockerill, BioMed Central
Limited
>
> * "When allegory replaces rational thought, science had better watch out,"
> by Richard T. Kaser, Executive Director, US National Federation of
> Abstracting & Information Services
>
>
>
> 2. Nature's own view of the future of the electronic scientific
literature,
> and the right and wrong ways forward.
>
> Nature's 6 September issue carries a special two-page editorial, "The
future
> of the electronic scientific literature;" it is also available on free
access
> in the web forum (see
http://www.nature.com/nature/debates/e-access/Articles/
> opinion2.html). It outlines Nature's vision of a landscape of scientific
> communication that will be much more heterogeneous and diverse than the
> journals system with which we are familiar today. The article concludes
that "
> Getting there will require novel forms of collaboration between publishers,
> databases, digital libraries and other stakeholders. It would be unwise to
> put all of one's eggs in the basket of any one economic or technological '
> solution'. Diversity is the best bet."
>
>
> 3. Nature Publishing Group participates in E-BioSci website
>
> Natureâs publisher, the Nature Publishing Group, has signed an initial
> agreement with the European Molecular Biology Organisation (EMBO)
confirming
> their commitment to introducing NPG journal content on to the E-BioSci
> central archive. (For a description of E-BioSci, see article by its
director
> Les Grivell in Natureâs Web forum, and http://www.e-biosci.org).
>
> The EMBO-led proposal for a single global online resource covering all
areas
> of molecular biology, where data could be deposited and searched using a
> single procedure, should have a significant impact on the publication and
> availability of scientific research. The Nature Publishing Group sees this
> agreement as a first step in enhancing access across the scientific
> literature. Says Annette Thomas, Managing Director, Nature Publishing
Group. "
> We look forward to working with E-BioSci to develop search and other
> functionality across the full text of papers published in NPG journals and
> those of other collaborating publishers".
>
> Nature Publishing Group has initially agreed to provide abstracts and full
> links into Nature, the Nature Research and Review journals, and the NPG
> specialist journals. Construction and maintenance of the service will be
> funded initially by the European Commission for a period of three years,
with
> subsequent funding and/or commercial development of the service to be
> evaluated during the course of the project.
>
>
> 4. Feedback
> We encourage you to give us feedback on these issues, and to let us know
> what you feel are your, and your community's, major and most pressing needs
> with respect to the future of the scientific electronic literature. You may
> contact Declan Butler, the editor of the forum, directly on d.butler@nature.
> com
>
> Forum address: http://www.nature.com/nature/debates/e-access/
>
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New from Nature on the future of the electronic literature
As readers of Nature will know, there is currently considerable debate about
many aspects of the future of the electronic literature, including ways to
improve access to the scientific literature, proposals for making research
papers free, and changing the application of copyright. We would like to draw
your attention to new content relating to these issues on Nature's website and
to a new publishing initiative by the Nature Publishing Group that will provide
wider access on the web to literature published by the group.
1. 18 September: update on Nature's web forum, "Future e-access to the primary
literature" (http://www.nature.com/nature/debates/e-access/).
2. Nature's own view of the future of the electronic scientific literature, and
the right and wrong ways forward: leading article.
3. Press release, 14 September: Nature Publishing Group participates in
E-Biosci website
4. Feedback
1. Update on Nature's web forum, "Future e-access to the primary literature"
The debate over the future of the e-literature involves many players, from the
scientific community and institutions of higher education and research, to
libraries and publishers. Nature has led the way in this debate by bringing the
views of these groups before a broad audience, and highlighting the publishing
challenges and opportunities. Nature's free web forum on "Future e-access to
the primary literature" can be accessed at
http://www.nature.com/nature/debates/e-access/ .
New contributions scheduled for publication this week include:
* "Healthy warning: 'This journal supports full text, tariff-free archives,'"
by Colin Hopkins, Professor of Molecular Cell Biology, Imperial College,
London, UK
* "Evolution of scholarly communication 'impossible to plan,'" by Andrew
Odlyzko , Director, Digital Technology Center, University of Minnesota
* "A view from the news industry," by David Allen, Managing Director,
International Press Telecommunications Council
* "A new value chain for scientific information," by Hans E. Roosendaal, Peter
A. Th. M. Geurts and Paul van der Vet, University of Twente, The Netherlands
* "BioMed Central: a new business model for biomedical research publishing?" by
Fiona Godlee, Peter Newmark, and Matthew Cockerill, BioMed Central Limited
* "When allegory replaces rational thought, science had better watch out," by
Richard T. Kaser, Executive Director, US National Federation of Abstracting &
Information Services
2. Nature's own view of the future of the electronic scientific literature, and
the right and wrong ways forward.
Nature's 6 September issue carries a special two-page editorial, "The future of
the electronic scientific literature;" it is also available on free access in
the web forum (see
http://www.nature.com/nature/debates/e-access/Articles/opinion2.html). It
outlines Nature's vision of a landscape of scientific communication that will
be much more heterogeneous and diverse than the journals system with which we
are familiar today. The article concludes that "Getting there will require
novel forms of collaboration between publishers, databases, digital libraries
and other stakeholders. It would be unwise to put all of one's eggs in the
basket of any one economic or technological 'solution'. Diversity is the best
bet."
3. Nature Publishing Group participates in E-BioSci website
Nature?s publisher, the Nature Publishing Group, has signed an initial
agreement with the European Molecular Biology Organisation (EMBO) confirming
their commitment to introducing NPG journal content on to the E-BioSci central
archive. (For a description of E-BioSci, see article by its director Les
Grivell in Nature?s Web forum, and http://www.e-biosci.org).
The EMBO-led proposal for a single global online resource covering all areas of
molecular biology, where data could be deposited and searched using a single
procedure, should have a significant impact on the publication and availability
of scientific research. The Nature Publishing Group sees this agreement as a
first step in enhancing access across the scientific literature. Says Annette
Thomas, Managing Director, Nature Publishing Group. "We look forward to working
with E-BioSci to develop search and other functionality across the full text of
papers published in NPG journals and those of other collaborating publishers".
Nature Publishing Group has initially agreed to provide abstracts and full
links into Nature, the Nature Research and Review journals, and the NPG
specialist journals. Construction and maintenance of the service will be funded
initially by the European Commission for a period of three years, with
subsequent funding and/or commercial development of the service to be evaluated
during the course of the project.
4. Feedback
We encourage you to give us feedback on these issues, and to let us know what
you feel are your, and your community's, major and most pressing needs with
respect to the future of the scientific electronic literature. You may contact
Declan Butler, the editor of the forum, directly on d.butler@nature.com
Forum address: http://www.nature.com/nature/debates/e-access/
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