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ISCApad Archive » 2014 » ISCApad #187 » ISCA News » A message of Martin Cooke, ISCA Board Member with responsibilities for Publications and Archive |
ISCApad #187 |
| Saturday, January 11, 2014 by Chris Wellekens |
2-2 A message of Martin Cooke, ISCA Board Member with responsibilities for Publications and Archive
,Pros and cons of an open ISCA
There is a growing movement, supported and in some cases led by national and transnational funding bodies, towards open access to the fruits of research, particularly that funded by the taxpayer. At the same time many researchers want to see their work reach, and influence, the widest possible audience, including those in less well-resourced institutions, industries and countries. Professional associations such as ISCA are actively debating the case for opening up their own collections. At present, the ISCA archive is partially open with the proceedings of SIGs and workshops being freely available to non-members, but the main body of the archive -- 25 years of annual conferences of Eurospeech, ICSLP and Interspeech -- is currently closed to non-members. Should ISCA follow the lead of organisations and conferences such as ACL, NAACL, EMNLP, NIPS and ICML in providing open access, or maintain members-only access as is the case for ICASSP and other IEEE conferences? The ISCA Board is currently seeking opinions about the merits and drawbacks of open access, and we welcome your comments at publication@isca-speech.org Martin Cooke |
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