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:

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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

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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