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The NIH open access policy is not enough. First, it only applies to NIH funded work. Work funded by other agencies does not fall under these rules. Also - I
by jonathaneisen 12y ago
The NIH open access policy is not enough. First, it only applies to NIH funded work. Work funded by other agencies does not fall under these rules. Also - I don't think posting papers to Pubmed Central 1 year after publication is quick enough to advance science. And furthermore, the papers are only made freely available in Pubmed Central. The NIH policy does not require papers to be "open" (as in, free to use and reuse in any way one wants).
Oh - and Science is one of, if the the, only journal that does not do deposition to Pubmed Central for the authors. The authors have to do it themselves and many do not.
- JadeNB 12y ago> The NIH open access policy is not enough. To be sure!—I agree with all of your points. However, we have to start somewhere, and it is something—I'd rather have an imperfect solution, as long as it stimulates a search for the perfect one, than no solution. For example, as far as I know, no common grants in mathematics carry this stipulation. (I am thinking here of the situation where it is (relatively) easy now to obtain non-DRM'd music; the initial solutions were far from perfect, but they showed that the world didn't end when they were implemented.)
- jonathaneisen 12y agoYes, agreed. I support the NIH policy. I just want more openness than it provides.