Many Nobel Laureates & Luminaries have supported Open Access broad dissemination of research results. Visitors of this page should note that SDI has no connection with these great persons. This page is created for general awareness of the visitors about the magnitude and momentum of OA movement. This page should be considered as general information only. SDI wants that more people should be attracted to Open Access (OA) movement.
41 Nobel Prize Winners wrote that "..Broad dissemination of research results is fundamental to the advancement of knowledge..".
Recently 41 Nobel laureates wrote that "....research results are not available to researchers, scientists, or members of the public. We believe Congress can and must act to ensure that all potential users have free and timely access on the Internet to peer-reviewed federal research findings. This ultimately magnifies the public benefits of research by promoting progress, enhancing economic growth, and improving the public welfare.
As the pursuit of science is increasingly conducted in a digital world, we need policies that ensure that the opportunities the Internet presents for new research tools and techniques to be employed can be fully exploited. The removal of access barriers and the enabling of expanded use of research findings has the potential to dramatically transform how we approach issues of vital importance to the public, such as biomedicine, climate change, and energy research. ....."
This open letter is signed by following 41 Nobel Laureates
U.S. Laureates:
Name Category Prize Year
Peter Agre Chemistry 2003
Paul Berg Chemistry 1980
Martin Chalfie Chemistry 2008
Robert F. Curl Jr. Chemistry 1996
Johann Deisenhofer Chemistry 1988
Robert H. Grubbs Chemistry 2005
Roald Hoffmann Chemistry 1981
Walter Kohn Chemistry 1998
Roger D. Kornberg Chemistry 2006
Sir Harold Kroto Chemistry 1996
Kary B. Mullis Chemistry 1993
Irwin Rose Chemistry 2004
David Baltimore Medicine 1975
Baruj Benacerraf Medicine 1980
Sydney Brenner Medicine 2002
Stanley Cohen Medicine 1986
Andrew Z. Fire Medicine 2006
Edmond H. Fischer Medicine 1992
Alfred G. Gilman Medicine 1994
Carol W. Greider Medicine 2009
Leland H. Hartwell Medicine 2001
David H. Hubel Medicine 1981
Eric R. Kandel Medicine 2000
Joseph E. Murray Medicine 1990
Marshall W. Nirenberg Medicine 1968
Andrew V. Schally Medicine 1977
Jack W. Szostak Medicine 2009
Harold E. Varmus Medicine 1989
James Watson Medicine 1962
Sheldon Glashow Physics 1979
John C. Mather Physics 2006
Douglas D. Osheroff Physics 1996
H. David Politzer Physics 2004
Non-U.S. Laureates
Name Category Prize Year
Aaron Ciechanover Chemistry 2004
Avram Hershko Chemistry 2004
Jean-Marie Lehn Chemistry 1987
Hartmut Michel Chemistry 1988
Sir Martin J. Evans Medicine 2007
Tim Hunt Medicine 2001
Bengt I. Samuelsson Medicine 1982
Rolf M. Zinkernagel Medicine 1996
Souce: An Open Letter to the U.S. Congress Signed by 41 Nobel Prize Winners (November 2009)1
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33 Nobel Prize Winners wrote that "...For scientists working at the cutting edge of knowledge, it is essential that they have unhindered access to the world's scientific literature...".
Recently 33 Nobel laureates wrote that, "...scientists and researchers at all but the most well-financed universities are finding it difficult to pay the escalating costs of subscriptions to the journals that provide their life blood....".
They also opined that, ".....The clientele for this knowledge are not just an esoteric group of university scientists and researchers who are pushing forward the frontiers of knowledge. Increasingly, high school students preparing for their science fairs need access to this material so that they too can feel the thrill of research. Teachers preparing courses also need access to the most up-to-date science to augment the inevitably out-of-date textbooks. Most importantly, the lay public wants to know about research findings that may be pertinent to their own health diagnoses and treatment modalities......"
This open letter is signed by following 33 Nobel Laureates
Name Category of Nobel Prize Year
David Baltimore Physiology or Medicine 1975
Paul Berg Chemistry 1980
Michael Bishop Physiology or Medicine 1989
Gunter Blobel Physiology or Medicine 1999
Paul Boyer Chemistry 1997
Sydney Brenner Physiology or Medicine 2002
Mario Cappechi Physiology or Medicine 2007
Thomas Cech Chemistry 1989
Stanley Cohen Physiology or Medicine 1986
Robert Curl Chemistry 1996
Johann Deisenhofer Chemistry 1988
John Fenn Chemistry 2002
Edmond Fischer Physiology or Medicine 1992
Paul Greengard Physiology or Medicine 2000
Roger Guillemin Physiology or Medicine 1977
Leland Hartwell Physiology or Medicine 2001
Dudley Herschbach Chemistry 1986
Roald Hoffman Chemistry 1981
H. Robert Horvitz Physiology or Medicine 2002
Roger Kornberg Chemistry 2006
Harold Kroto Chemistry 1996
Roderick MacKinnon Chemistry 2003
Craig Mello Physiology or Medicine 2006
Kary Mullis Chemistry 1993
Joseph Murray Physiology or Medicine 1990
Marshall Nirenberg Physiology or Medicine 1968
Paul Nurse Physiology or Medicine 2001
Stanley Prusiner Physiology or Medicine 1997
Richard Roberts Physiology or Medicine 1993
Susumu Tonegawa Physiology or Medicine 1987
Hamilton Smith Physiology or Medicine 1978
Harold Varmus Physiology or Medicine 1989
James Watson Physiology or Medicine 1962
Souce: An Open Letter to the U.S. Congress Signed by 33 Nobel Prize Winners (Sep 9, 2008)2
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Sir John Edward Sulston, FRS, is a British biologist and the 2002 Nobel prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate. He is currently Chair of the newly-founded Institute for Science, Ethics and Innovation (iSEI) at the University of Manchester. He is one of the supporter of OA movement. Along with philosopher John Harris he is one of the main architects of the Manchester Manifesto, came in November 27, 2009.
Peter Suber is the creator of the game Nomic and a leading voice in the open access movement. He is a senior research professor of philosophy at Earlham College, Fellow at Harvard's Berkman Center and Office for Scholarly Communication, the open access project director at Public Knowledge, a senior researcher at SPARC (Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition). He is also a member of the Advisory Boards at the Wikimedia Foundation, the Open Knowledge Foundation, and other organizations devoted to open access and an information commons.
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MIT Faculty Chair Bish Sanyal, a supporter of OA movement, described the anonymous vote for MIT-open-access-mandate as “a signal to the world that we speak in a unified voice; that what we value is the free flow of ideas.”
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Daniel Shek, professor at Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, told: “Open Access journals offer an innovative and efficient way of publication for academics and professionals in a wide range of disciplines. The papers published are of high quality after rigorous peer review and they are Indexed in: major international databases. I read Open Access journals to keep abreast of the recent development in my field of study."
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Hal Abelson is professor at Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is a vocal supporter of OA movement. Under his chairmanship, the committee formulated the MIT Faculty Open-Access Policy which became university-wide OA mandate.
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M. Bendandi, professor, University Clinic of Navarre, Spain, told: "Open access journals have become a fundamental tool for students, researchers, patients and the general public. Many people from institutions which do not have library or cannot afford to subscribe scientific journals benefit of them on a daily basis. The articles are among the best and cover most scientific areas."
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Prof Anthony Finkelstein, Head of Computer Science, University College London, said: “Impact is the watchword for research and this depends on it reaching the widest audience possible. Open Access is a critical enabler for this. UCL’s plans to build a major scholarly resource around its Open Access policy is warmly welcomed by researchers across UCL.”
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Kenji Hashimoto, professor at Chiba University, Japan, told: "Open access journals are freely available online throughout the world, for you to read, download, copy, distribute, and use. The articles published in the open access journals are high quality and cover a wide range of fields."
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Professor Chris Carey, Head of Greek and Latin, University College London, said: “The potential benefits of Open Access as a means of making cutting edge research available across the world cost free are enormous. This is an opportunity to make a major impact in regions where cost is a potentially insuperable obstacle to access. The scale, diversity and outstanding quality of UCL research make us ideal leaders in this field.”
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J.C. Jones is professor at Mechanics of Materials Research Group, University of Aberdeen, Scotland. He is the author of 300 publications including six university-level textbooks. In support of the OA movement he said, "The advantage of the Open Journal series is that it is just that: open, and accessible to anyone with a PC at no charge I appeal to scholars across the disciplines to consider the Open Journal series as a forum for their work."
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References:
1An Open Letter to the U.S. Congress Signed by 41 Nobel Prize Winners (November 2009)
2An Open Letter to the U.S. Congress Signed by 33 Nobel Prize Winners
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