MEDIA ADVISORY
FREE ACCESS TO SCIENCE: A MODEL FOR THE DISSEMINATION OF SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE
Much has been made in recent months about making the results of scientific research freely accessible. For the first time, a coalition of some 50 not-for-profit publishers explain their “free access” approach to the dissemination of science. Their approach is both consistent with the traditions of furthering scientific advancement, and beneficial to authors and readers alike.
WHAT:
Since the mid-1990s, the Internet has become the medium through which medical and biological scientists publish their original work. During the last 12 months, advocates for open access to research have begun publishing journals incorporating an author pays model. A panel representing the viewpoints of some 50 health, medical, and scientific publishers explains their approach to “free access,” which is beneficial to authors and readers alike and consistent with the history of not-for-profit publishers. The panel will also discuss the ability of this model to co-exist in the marketplace. Collectively, the free access signatories publish 380 journals each year, represent more than 600,000 members, and post 800,000 articles online each year, of which more than 440,000 are free. Please join us for this discussion.
WHEN:
Tuesday, March 16, 2004
10:00 – 11:00 AM
WHERE:
National Press Club
Washington, DC
WHO:
John K. Iglehart
Founding editor of Project HOPE's Health Affairs, the nation's preeminent health policy journal, Washington, DC
Robert D. Wells, Ph.D.
President, FASEB and Director of the Center for Genome Research, Institute of Biosciences and Technology, Texas A&M University, Houston, TX
Alice Villalobos, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Environmental Medicine, University of Rochester School of Medicine & Dentistry, Rochester, NY
William Rosner, M.D.
Professor of Medicine, Columbia University College of Surgeons and Physicians and a clinician specializing in endocrinology at St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center, New York, NY
Karin Wittenborg, M.L.S.
Ms. Wittenborg is the University Librarian at University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
Martin Frank, Ph.D.
Spokesperson for the Washington, DC Principles for Free Access to Science and Executive Director of the American Physiological Society, Bethesda, MD
The Washington, DC Principles for Free Access to Science is a coalition of 49 not-for-profit scientific, technical, and medical publishers that publish 110 scholarly journals. The coalition speaks for more than 610,000 scientists and researchers through the following organizations: American Academy of Pediatrics, American Association for Cancer Research, American Association for Clinical Chemistry, American Cancer Society, American College of Nutrition, American College of Physicians, American Dairy Science Association, American Diabetes Association, American Physiological Society, American Psychiatric Publishing, American Roentgen Ray Society, American Society of Animal Science, American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, American Society for Clinical Investigation, American Society for Clinical Nutrition, American Society for Investigative Pathology, American Society for Microbiology, American Society for Nutritional Sciences, American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, American Society of Clinical Oncology, American Society of Hematology, American Society of Nephrology, American Society of Plant Biologists, Association for Molecular Pathology, Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology, Association of Biomolecular Resource Facilities, Biophysical Society, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, Company of Biologists, Limited, European Molecular Biology Organisation, Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology, Genetics Society of America, Harvey Whitney Books, The Histochemical Society, Project HOPE, Protein Society, Radiological Society of North America, Royal College of Psychiatrists, Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine, Society for Leukocyte Biology, Society for the Study of Reproduction, Society of National Association Publications, Society of Nuclear Medicine, Society of Surgical Oncology, The Botanical Society of America, The Endocrine Society, The Physiological Society, and The Rockefeller University Press.
For more information, log on to www.dcprinciples.org.
The American Society of Hematology (www.hematology.org) is the world's largest professional society concerned with the causes and treatment of blood disorders. Its mission is to further the understanding, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of disorders affecting blood, bone marrow, and the immunologic, hemostatic, and vascular systems, by promoting research, clinical care, education, training, and advocacy in hematology.
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