Hardcopies of this letters are in the coffee room. Please, sign them today if you are willing to join.
Yours Jouni
-----Original Message----- From: Petr Stepanek Petr.Stepanek@oulu.fi Sent: 23. tammikuuta 2019 13:44 To: Jürgen Schmidt Jurgen.A.Schmidt@oulu.fi; Anita Aikio Anita.Aikio@oulu.fi; Marko Huttula Marko.Huttula@oulu.fi; Jouni Aspi Jouni.Aspi@oulu.fi; Esa Läärä esa.laara@oulu.fi; Jarkko Saarinen jarkko.saarinen@oulu.fi; Kalevi Mursula kalevi.mursula@oulu.fi Cc: Maarit Järvenpää Maarit.Jarvenpaa@oulu.fi; Juha Vaara juha.vaara@iki.fi Subject: Possibility of collective response letter to Academy of Finland
Dear colleagues (those who have still not put me on your spam list),
We have come in our research Unit to the conclusion that it is not time-efficient if everyone spends their time writing a feedback on Plan S individually, especially since we feel there are many common concerns.
Thus, in order to facilitate the feedback process in our group, we have put together two letters, supported by signatures from multiple people. Both documents will be sent together to the Academy of Finland. One details the suggested improvements of Plan S itself that Academy should propose through its membership in cOAlition S. The other one puts things in perspective from the point of view of Finnish science under the rule of Plan S. In addition to saving collectively dozens of hours of individual writing, I believe there is a benefit in expressing our shared concerns as a larger community. It does not limit your options for individual feedback if you feel there is an omission in our statement.
The two letters are attached and I would like to present you the opportunity to join them. Please consider this, forward them into your group and if you or someone from your research unit feels that one (or both) of these letters expresses your views in sufficient extend and clarity, you are free to join the list of signatories (I can come to you, logistics can be arranged). Requested information is just your name and position (Prof./Postdoc/PhD, etc..) written by your own hand, no signatures are collected. For transparency, all signatories will be included in the copy of the e-mail sent to Academy. I would like to wrap it up by the end of the next week (1st February 17:00 Finnish time).
I believe that our feedback for the Academy has a potential for making an impact. While the whole Plan S is receiving very similar criticism from all around the world, the Academy's pool of feedback is much smaller and therefore every voice matters there. In addition, by being a smaller body, it is easier to influence than EU-wide consortium, which can in turn be influenced by Academy. Since cOAlition S intends to make the received feedback public and allows specifically only individual or institutional feedback, I am leaving this option for your own. I would still like to encourage you to take part in that.
In addition, if you feel like that, you might also consider supporting an international Open Letter, currently counting more than 1600 signatures (https://sites.google.com/view/plansopenletter/home).
I suppose that unless something really dramatic happens, this should wrap up my spam concerning Plan S. Thank you for your interest and let's hope it turns out well.
Best Regards
Petr
-- Petr Štěpánek, Ph.D. NMR Research Unit Faculty of Science, P.O. Box 3000 90014 University of Oulu Finland phone: +358 29 4481409 http://cc.oulu.fi/~nmrwww/ www.facebook.com/NMR.Oulu http://www.nmrsymposium.fi/2019/