A US announcement on open access was
eagerly awaited. But when it came last week, the new policy was a blow for
anyone who wants fully paid-for, immediate access to the results of publicly
funded research.
The US Office of Science and Technology
Policy has asked federal agencies to prepare plans to ensure that all articles
and data produced from research that they fund are made publicly accessible within
12 months of publication. That delayed-access approach would have looked
progressive five years ago, when the US National Institutes of Health was first
putting into practice its mandate that (at least) the authors’ final versions
of papers must be freely available within a maximum of a year of publishing — a
‘green’ open-access approach, with which this publication has consistently
complied. But in 2013, it looks as if a combination of financial constraints
and a lack of firm resolve at the top of the US government is blocking movement
towards the policy that ultimately benefits science the most: ‘gold’ open
access, in which the published article is immediately freely available, paid
for by a processing charge rather than by readers’ subscriptions.( A blog from
nature on 26 February 2013)
Oalib(www.oalib.net) seems a new creative
open access process, different from green and gold open access. Oalib is newly
launched search engine for academic articles. Though the us policy of open
access does not apply immediate open access, which is a small step towords full
open access compared to immediate open access, oalib makes a new platform to
facilitate dealing with open access articles.
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