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Volume 9, Number 2 September, 2005 Submissions Welcome! The Editors encourage submission of any announcements, and/or letters to the editors, regarding psychological science. Comments on the content and presentation of the newsletter are also appreciated. Submit to: Editors, The Experimental Psychology Bulletin Kristi S. Multhaup Davidson College (704) 894-2008 Mark E. Faust Univ. of North Carolina at Charlotte (704) 687-3564 Humor Needed… Why waste your time subjecting your family and friends to your humor when you can elicit guffaws from your colleagues? Send us your science related humor: krmulthaup@davidson.edu Division 3 E-mail Listserve Access Subscribe to the Division 3 E-mail network to keep informed about Division 3 and issues regarding psychological science. This is a monitored network to keep the number of e-mails down. Subscribe: Send an e-mail to listserv@lists.apa.org. Leave the Subject line blank and type “subscribe div3” in the body of the message. Send a Message (once subscribed): div3@lists.apa.org Questions: Send e-mail to Neal Johnson, Ohio State University, johnson.64@osu.edu Division Representatives 2005-2006 President Thomas R. Zentall University of Kentucky (859) 257-4076 President-Elect Howard Egeth Johns Hopkins University (410) 516-7910 Past President Alice Healy University of Colorado (303) 492-5032 Secretary-Treasurer Angelo Santi Wilfrid Laurier University (519) 884-0710 Historian Charles L. Brewer Furman University (803) 294-3216 Members-At-Large of the Executive Committee Mark A. McDaniel (8/05-08) Washington University, St. Louis (314) 935-8030 Valerie F. Renya (8/05-08) Cornell University (607) 254-1247 Nelson Cowan (8/04-07) University of Missouri (573) 882-7710 Ralph R. Miller (8/04-07) Binghamton Univ., SUNY (607) 777-2291 Mark H. Ashcraft (8/05-06) UNLV (702) 895-3305 Mark.Ashcraft@ccmail.nevada.edu Veronica J. Dark (8/03-06) Iowa State University (515) 294-1688 Representative to APA Council Lewis P. Lipsitt (8/04-07) Brown University (401) 863-2332 Emanuel E. Donchin (8/03-06) University of South Florida (813) 974-0466 Board of Directors J. Bruce Overmier University of Minnesota (612) 625-1835 Committee Chairs William D. Timberlake (Awards) Indiana University (812) 855-4042 Mark H. Ashcraft (Fellows) UNLV (702) 895-3305 Mark.Ashcraft@ccmail.nevada.edu Randall W. Engle (Membership) Georgia Institute of Technology (404) 894-8036 randall.engle@psych.gatech.edu Marvin Lamb (Program) Cal. State Hayward (510) 885-3484
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NIH Announces Open Access Policy
by Merry Bullock, Associate Executive Director for Science From APA Psychological Science Agenda Retrieved 10-6-2005 from: http://www.apa.org/science/psa/feb5openaccess.html |
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On February 3rd, NIH announced its long anticipated policy
designed to provide public access to the scientific data its grantees and
intramural scientists produce. In a "stakeholders' teleconference, NIH
Director Elias Zerhouni and his staff read the policy and responded to
questions. The policy as announced calls for scientists whose work is funded
by NIH in part or in full to submit their manuscripts to NIH's PubMed
Central for public release "as soon as possible" within 12 months after
final publication. Zerhouni and his Deputy Director Norka Ruiz Bravo framed
this policy as promoting the agency's goals of increased visibility for NIH
research and as addressing the public's demands for open access and a public
archive. However, they also made it clear that complying with the policy
directives is voluntary and discretionary, and that the timing of
submissions is up to the author. They urged that publishers work closely
with authors in implementing the policy, but did not involve them directly.
The initial reactions to this policy initiative have been varied. In the question and answer period following the announcement, as well as in news articles, interviews, and opinion pieces following the announcement, representatives from professional science associations, patient advocate groups, scientists, publishers and the public have discussed the policy. Responses range from congratulations on beginning to address the access issue to disappointment that access is neither compulsory or rapid; with questions about copyright, enforceability, implementation and feasibility. The present policy is a much weaker version than that promulgated in draft versions. According to NIH, this policy, revised after receiving more than 6,200 comments on the draft versions (read APA's comments at: http://www.apa.org/science/psa/nihopenaccess.pdf), attempts to provide flexibility and to promote maximum participation. The goal, according to NIH, is to build an archive of all NIH funded work in a single compendium that will be easily accessed and searched. Further information is available at http://www.nih.gov/about/publicaccess/index.htm. |
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