American Chemical Society

Back Access 12 months late is too little, too late to benefit research
access, usage or progress. This is just another untoward side-effect of
the flawed NIH Public Access Policy. NIH has now given ACS a pretext for
feeling civic-minded in not giving its green light to immediate
self-archiving!

The cure for all this dithering will be institutional self-archiving
policies. It doesn't depend on publishers; it never did. It depends
entirely upon researchers, their institutions and their research funders.
http://www.eprints.org/berlin3/program.html

    "Shulenburger on open access: so NEAR and yet so far"
    http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/3277.html

    "Please Don't Copy-Cat Clone NIH-12 Non-OA Policy!"
    http://makeashorterlink.com/?F2E01227A
    http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/4307.html

    "Open Access vs. NIH Back Access and Nature's Back-Sliding"
    http://makeashorterlink.com/?M3115427A
    http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/4312.html

Stevan Harnad
Received on Mon, 7 Mar 2005 22:17:21 EST