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Council for Science endorses open access to
scientific record; cautions against misuse of
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Assembly of the International Council for Science
today endorsed open access principles and provided
key recommendations guarding against the misuse of
metrics in the evaluation of research performance.</big></font></div>
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face="Arial"><big>Auckland, 2 September – In a
strong show of support for open access to the
scientific record, the Assembly, which unites
representatives of 120 national scientific
academies and 31 international scientific
unions, today voted for the statement which
stakes out 5 key goals for open access, and
offers 12 recommendations that pave the road for
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"Open Access is a key mechanism to support the
development of science and of vital importance
to all scientists both young and old," said
Prof. John Ball, who led the ICSU working group
that developed the statement. "It is a powerful
tool for creating and validating knowledge, and
for supporting science as a public good, and not
as something carried out behind closed doors,"
he added.<br>
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The <b>five goals</b> in the statement assert
that access to the scientific record should be
free of financial barriers for any researcher to
contribute to; free of financial barriers for
any user to access immediately on publication;
made available without restriction on reuse for
any purpose, subject to proper attribution;
quality-assured and published in a timely
manner; and archived and made available in
perpetuity.<br>
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The statement also makes <b>twelve
recommendations</b> for achieving these goals,
including recommendations on metrics, stating
that these, when used as an aid to the
evaluation of research and researchers, should
help promote open access and open science. It
also cautions that metrics should be regarded as
an aid, and not a substitute, for good
decision-making. They should not normally be
used in isolation to assess the performance of
researchers, to determine appointments, or to
distribute funds to individuals or research
groups, for which it says expert review is
indispensable.<br>
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The Council's position takes account of the
specific situation related to <b>research data</b>,
asserting that publishers should require authors
to provide explicit references to the datasets
underlying published research. They also should
require clear assurances that these datasets are
deposited and available in trusted and
sustainable digital repositories. Citing
datasets in reference lists using an accepted
standard format should be considered the norm.<span
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The statement also suggests that <b>terms of
contracts</b> governing the purchase of
scientific periodicals and databases by
libraries serving universities and research
establishments should be publicly accessible.</big></font></p>
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