From: Michael Carroll <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Tue, 7 May 2013 13:02:19 -0400

Dear all,

As a reminder, tomorrow is the closing date for registering to
participate in person or remotely in the National Academy of Sciences
meeting on the White House directive for all federally funded journal
articles to be made publicly accessible.
http://sites.nationalacademies.org/DBASSE/CurrentProjects/DBASSE_082378#.UYkwuUp48mN

Topics to consider commenting on are the appropriate embargo period
and what reuse rights users should have.  The agency plans have to
enable users to read, download and “analyze” the publications.  I
believe “analyze” means analyze computationally, which means enabling
bulk download for text mining purposes.  If others agree, that would
be a useful point to convey.

In addition, I’m going to argue that the agencies should permit
republication of publicly accessible manuscripts on other websites.
As a fallback, I think at a minimum institutional repositories should
have the rights to mirror the publicly accessible versions of the
articles.  Even if your repository would not currently have interest
in doing so, think of this as an insurance policy in the case that
funding for public access repositories dries up in the future.  If
mirroring rights are part of the plan, then the community can work
together to maintain public access. Again, if you agree, that would be
a useful point to make as well.

Best,

Mike

Michael W. Carroll
Professor of Law and Director,
Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property
American University, Washington College of Law
Washington, D.C. 20016
http://www.wcl.american.edu/faculty/mcarroll/vcard.vcf

Research papers: http://works.bepress.com/michael_carroll/
http://ssrn.com/author=330326
blog: http://www.carrollogos.blogspot.com/

See also www.creativecommons.org