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Re: [802SEC] July opening SEC agenda is attached--please review




>The allocated amounts of time, I believe, are insufficient for lines:
>	19/20/23/24
>...
>Geoff

Geoff:

One of these items is "Funding Model Task Force update" (J. Carlo, 2 minutes).

I agree that I'd like more time to hear this.

I read an item today (see below) that resonates with this issue. It 
is a possible governmental action that would seriously impact IEEE's 
financial model in technical publishing (though not in standards). 
The related web site <http://www.plos.org> says:

>The current manner in which science is published places the 
>interests of publishers before those of the public. This closed 
>system of scientific publication greatly diminishes the value of 
>public investment (over $50 billion dollars per year invested by US 
>taxpayers alone) in scientific and medical research.

The idea of the item below is that the government wants the work it 
paid for to be readily available. I think that many standards 
developers feel the same way.

Roger


>3. PUBLIC ACCESS TO SCIENCE: WITH LIBERTY AND RESEARCH FOR ALL.
>On Wednesday, Rep. Martin O. Sabo (D-MN) released a draft of the
>Public Access to Science Act, which will eliminate copyright
>protection for publications stemming from federally funded
>research.  The laudable goal of this measure is to make research
>easily accessible via the internet.  Sabo's move appears to
>further the goals of the Public Library of Science (PLoS),
>chaired by Harold Varmus, a group that wants to see scientific
>publishing move away from the subscription-based economics, which
>they claim limit the availability of the research.  PLoS will
>release its first "open-access" journal, PLoS Biology, in
>October, and plans to release PLoS Medicine next year.
>
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