Critique of STM Critique of NIH Proposal

[Stevan Harnad <harnad@ecs.soton.ac.uk>]

Full text of critique is at:

http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Temp/nih.rtf

Excerpts:

Date Wed, 17 Nov 2004 17:40:44 +0000
From: Stevan Harnad <harnad@ecs.soton.ac.uk>
To: AMERICAN-SCIENTIST-OPEN-ACCESS-FORUM@LISTSERVER.SIGMAXI.ORG

       CRITIQUE OF STM CRITIQUE OF NIH PROPOSAL
        Stevan Harnad

> http://www.stm-assoc.org/statements/accessprop.php
> National Institutes of Health consultation: Enhanced Public
> Access to NIH consultation
> STM Position on NIH Open Access Proposal
> 12 November 2004
>
> The International Association of Scientific, Technical and Medical Publishers
> ("STM") is concerned that the National Institutes of Health ("NIH") proposal on
> open publication on the NIH's "PubMed Central" web site does not adequately
> define the problem to be solved and, as a result, does not appear to consider
> fully the implications of its proposed solution.

Here is the definition: Not all would-be users of research journal
articles are at institutions that can afford online access to them. *Free
public online access* is intended to supplement access so that all
would-be users may read, use, build-upon, cite and apply journal articles
reporting NIH-funded research results.

Stevan Harnad