The Minister of State for Science and Technology effectively voted against:
- the free and open exchange of scientific information
- evidence-based policy-making
- federal government scientists must be enabled to discuss openly their findings
- federal government should maintain support for its basic scientific capacity across Canada
- the world-renowned Experimental Lakes Area Research Facility
John Dupuis, Acting Associate University Librarian, Information
Services at York University, Toronto, Canada, talks about one year of open access advocacy.
Blog post on ScienceBlogs.
Instead of 6 month, what gave researchers a leg to stand on when negotiating a shorter embargo period with publishers, the Canadian Institute for Health and Research (CIHR), wants scientists to publish within 12 month.
As of January, 2013, CIHR-funded researchers will be required to make their peer-reviewed publications accessible at no cost within 12 months of publication – at the latest. While the revised Policy provides researchers with clear guidance on CIHR’s minimum expectation, in the spirit of public benefits of research, CIHR continues to encourage researchers to make their publications accessible for free as soon as possible after publication. Compliance with the Open Access Policy will continue to be monitored through end of grant reporting.
See also this bog entry.
Dan Whaley, founder at Hypothes.is: “Reimagining peer-review”, ievobio 2012 conference, Ottawa, Canada, keynote presentation, July 11th, 2012.
Researchers of the Université du Québec à Montréal, Montréal, Québec CANADA conclude that open access papers get twice as many citations as non-open access papers, and on top that open access raises quality.
We demonstrate that the greater citation impact of open access research is causal rather than an artifact of author bias (i.e., authors self-selectively making higher quality research open access) by showing that the citation increase is just as great when the open access is mandatory; the open access impact advantage is independent of other correlates of citation impact, and greater for higher quality research.