From: Richard Poynder <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2014 08:03:13 +0100

Correct. But actually, the interview I did was focussed on the OA
policy of NSFC rather than the policy at CAS. The NSFC policy can be
read here.

You will see the policy states, "From the day this policy statement is
issued, research papers generated from projects fully or partially
funded by NSFC, when submitted and published in academic journals, the
authors of the papers should deposit the final manuscripts, which have
been peer reviewed and accepted by the journals, to the NSFC
repository with an embargo period of no more than 12 months. Earlier
open access should be provided if the publisher allows. If the paper
is published in an open access journal or the publisher allows the
deposit of the published version in PDF format, such version should be
deposited into the NSFC repository and open access should be provided
immediately."

However, as Prof. Yonghe Zheng points out, the NSFC repository may not
go live until 2016.

When I sought clarification on this issue Prof. Zheng replied, "In the
meantime, we encourage them to deposit their papers in their
respective institutional repositories."

This leads me to assume that until the repository goes live the NSFC
policy is one of encouragement rather than necessity.

Richard Poynder



On 20 June 2014 00:48, LIBLICENSE <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> From: "Harnad, Stevan" <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2014 11:51:34 -0400
>
> Here is an important (and very welcome) correction from Eloy Rodrigues:
>
> ******
>
> On Jun 19, 2014, at 7:47 AM, Eloy Rodrigues <eloy—sdum—uminho--pt> wrote:
>
> Hi Stevan,
>
> The CAS mandate is for immediate deposit: CAS requires its researchers
> and graduate students to  deposit an  electronic version of the final,
> peer-reviewed manuscripts of their research  articles, resulted from
> any public funded scientific research projects, submitted and
> consequently published in academic journals after the issuing  of this
> policy, into the open access repositories of their respective
> institutes at  the time the article is published, to be made publicly
> available within 12 months of the official data of publication.  And
> CAS already has a network of IRs. Xiaolin Zhang the CAS Library
> Director has been a very active OA and IR advocate.
>
> Best,
>
> Serviços de Documentação
> Eloy Rodrigues
> Direcção
> Campus de Gualtar, 4710 - 057 Braga -  Portugal
> Campus de Azurém, 4800 058 Guimarães
> http://www.sdum.uminho.pt  |
>
>
>
> De: Stevan Harnad
> Enviada: quinta-feira, 19 de Junho de 2014 12:00
>
> The two Chinese OA Mandates (NSFC and CAS) came fast (2014), but the
> possibility of complying with them is coming slowly (no repository
> till 2016).
>
> In addition, articles need not be deposited until 12 months after publication.
>
> In most fields, especially the fast-moving sciences, the benefits of
> Open Access (maximised uptake, usage, impact and progress) are biggest
> and most important within the first year of publication. That is the
> growth tip of research. Access losses in the first year are never
> fully caught up in later years. The iron needs to be struck when it is
> hot.
>
> There are two very simple steps that China can take to minimise the
> needless loss of research uptake, usage and impact because of lost
> time:
>
> (1) China should set up the repositories immediately, using the
> available free softwares such as EPrints and DSpace. It requires only
> a server and a few hours worth of set-up time and the repository is
> ready for deposits. There is no reason whatsoever to wait two years.
> It would also be sensible to have distributed local repositories — at
> universities and research institutions — rather than just one central
> one. Each institution can easily set up its own repository. All
> repositories are interoperable and if and when desired, their contents
> can be automatically exported to or harvested by central repositories.
>
> (2) Although an OA embargo of 12 months is allowed, China should
> mandate that deposit itself must be immediate(immediately upon
> acceptance for publication). Access to the deposit can be set as
> closed access instead of OA during the embargo if desired, but EPrints
> and DSpace repositories have the “Request-Copy” Button for
> closed-access deposits so that individual users can request and
> authors can provide an individual copy for research purposes with one
> click each. The repository automatically emails the copy if the author
> clicks Yes.
>
> Stevan Harnad
>
> *******
>
> On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 5:04 AM, Richard Poynder
> <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> On May 15 both the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and the National
> Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) announced new open access
> policies.
>
> Both funders’ policies require that all papers resulting from funded
> projects must be deposited in online repositories and made publicly
> accessible within 12 months of publication — a model pioneered by the
> US National Institutes of Health (NIH) in 2008, when it introduced its
> influential Public Access Policy.
>
> As a result of the new Chinese policies there will be a significant
> increase in the number of research papers freely available, not least
> because it comes at a time when the number of papers published by
> Chinese researchers is growing rapidly. In reporting news of the
> policies, Nature indicated that Chinese research output has grown from
> 48,000 articles in 2003, or 5.6% of the global total, to more than
> 186,000 articles in 2012, or 13.9%.
>
> Of the latter figure, more than 100,000 papers, or 55.2% of Chinese
> ouput, involved some funding from the NSFC.
>
> A Q&A conducted by email with Prof. Yonghe Zheng, Deputy Director
> General of the Bureau of Policy, NSFC can be viewed here:
>
> http://poynder.blogspot.co.uk/2014/06/the-open-access-interviews-deputy.html