Future e-access to the primary literature

the points of view of:

the public library of science

Public Library of Science Open Letter

librarians

Higher education needs may determine the future of scientific e-publishing Hans E. Roosendaal et al. University of Twente, Netherlands (18 September 2001)

Evolution and scientific literature: towards a decentralized adaptive web Rick Luce, director, Research Library of Los Alamos National Laboratory (10 May 2001)

What price 'free'? Ann Okerson, Associate University Librarian, Yale University (5 April 2001)

not-for-profit science publishers

When allegory replaces rational thought, science had better watch out Richard T. Kaser, Former Executive Director, National Federation of Abstracting & Information Services (18 September 2001)

No Free Lunch! Martin Frank, Executive Director, American Physiological Society (20 August 2001)

Whither competition? Richard K. Johnson, Enterprise Director, SPARC (15 June 2001)

Authors willing to pay for instant web access Thomas J. Walker, Department of Entomology and Nematology, University of Florida. (31 May 2001)

Innovation and service in scientific publishing requires more, not less, competition Michael Keller, Publisher, HighWire Press (25 May 2001)

Electronic access to journals: the views of the American Physical Society Martin Blume, Editor-in-Chief, The American Physical Society (12 April 2001)

Boycott! Frank Gannon, Executive Director, European Molecular Biology Organization (5 April 2001)

Setting Logical Priorities Ira Mellman, Editor of The Journal of Cell Biology (5 April 2001)

Impacts of free access Martin Richardson, Journals Publishing Director, Oxford University Press (5 April 2001)

Position statement by the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Robert D. Wells, President, ASBMB, and Herbert Tabor, Editor, J. Biol. Chem. (5 April 2001)

for-profit science publishers

Digital archives: how we can provide access to ‘old’ biomedical information Richard R. Rowe, Chairman, RoweCom. (14 August 2001)

Information access: what is to be done? Robert Campbell, President, Blackwell Science Ltd (27 April 2001)

Content and context in one service, tailored to meet the needs of scientists Derk Haank, CEO, Elsevier Science (5 April 2001)

databases & repositories

Evolution and revolution: pragmatism versus dogmatism Ed Pentz, Executive Director, Publishers International Linking Association (28 August 2001)

Tailoring access to the source: preprints, grey literature and journal articles Walter Warnick, Director, The Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI), US Department of Energy (3 May 2001)

The self-archiving initiative Stevan Harnad, Intelligence/Agents/Multimedia Group, Department of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton (26 April 2001)

GenBank - a model community resource? Jo McEntyre & David J. Lipman, National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health (5 April 2001)

E-Biosci: a European approach to handling biological information Les Grivell, Director, E-Biosci (5 April 2001)

PubMed Central decides to decentralize Edwin Sequeira, Johanna McEntyre & David Lipman, National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health (5 April 2001)

technology developers

Text markup and the cost of access Jon Bosak, Sun Microsystems (28 August 2001)

Distributed and centralized technologies: complementary tools to build a permanent digital archive Matt Cockerill, Technical Director, BioMed Central Limited (28 August 2001)

Scientific publishing on the 'semantic web' Tim Berners-Lee — the inventor of the World Wide Web and director of the World Wide Web Consortium at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) — and James Hendler — Computer Science Department, University of Maryland, and responsible for research on agent-based computing at the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. (12 April 2001)

scientists

Healthy warning: "This journal supports full text, tariff-free archives" Colin Hopkins, Professor of Molecular Cell Biology, Imperial College, London, UK (18 September 2001)

Free online availability substantially increases a paper's impact Steve Lawrence, NEC Research Institute. (31 May 2001)

Blurring the boundaries between the scientific 'papers' and biological databases Mark Gerstein & Jochen Junker, Molecular Biophysics & Biochemistry Department, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520 (7 May 2001)

Should the scientific literature be privately owned and controlled? Michael Eisen & Pat Brown, Public Library of Science (4 May 2001)

observers from other sectors

A view from the news industry David Allen, Managing Director, International Press Telecommunications Council (18 September 2001).

The Public Library of Science and the ongoing revolution in scholarly communication Andrew Odlyzko, Director, Digital Technology Center, University of Minnesota (18 September 2001).

Science must ‘push copyright aside’ Richard Stallman, , founder of the GNU project (8 June 2001).

Information wants to be valuable Tim O'Reilly, founder and president of O'Reilly & Associates. (18 May 2001).

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Librarians
Dale Flecker, Associate Director for Planning and Systems, Harvard University Library
Tom Sanville, Executive Director, Ohiolink

for profit science publishers
Eamon T. Fennessy, Chairman and CEO of The Copyright Group, Inc.
Fiona Godlee, Peter Newmark, and Matthew Cockerill, Biomed Central Limited

not for profit science publishers
John R. Inglis, Director of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press
Stuart Weibel, OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc.

databases and repositories
Amos Bairoch, cofounder of the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics and GeneBio
(Geneva Bioinformatics SA)
Harold Abelson, (MIT OpenCourseWare project), Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

technology developers
Russ Altmann, Stanford Medical Informatics, Stanford University Medical Center, and President, International Society for Computational Biology
Lawrence Hunter, Director, Center for Computational Pharmacology, University of Colorado

scientists
Bruce Stillman, Director and CEO, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

observers from other sectors
Hal Varian, dean of the School of Information Management and Systems at the University of California at Berkeley, and a leading economist on the 'new economy'