Implementing the US/UK recommendation to mandate OA Self-Archiving Stevan Harnad 02 Aug 2004 17:02 UTC
** apologies for cross-posting ** Now that the the UK Parliament Science and Technology Committee http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Temp/UKSTC.htm as well as the US House Appropriations Committee http://www.arl.org/sparc/core/index.asp?page=o31 have both recommended the OA self-archiving of funded research, it is time for universities and research institutions to start thinking about implementing that mandate -- and for those that have thought about it and done it to make their self-archiving policies known, so others can emulate them Here are 18 resources to help with this: (1) To indicate that your institution is committing itself to implementing an official Self-Archiving Policy and to briefly describe that policy for others: http://www.eprints.org/signup/sign.php (2) Registry of Institutions who have signed the above, and a description of their policies (5 so far): http://www.eprints.org/signup/fulllist.php (3) Registry of Institutional OA Eprint Archives (209 so far) http://archives.eprints.org/index.php?action=browse (4) Directory of Journals that have already given their official green light to author/institution self-archiving (84% so far): http://romeo.eprints.org/stats.php (5) OAIster: Harvester and search-engine for distributes Institutional OA Eprint Archives (307 so far): http://oaister.umdl.umich.edu/o/oaister/ (6) Model Departmental Self-Archiving Policy: http://software.eprints.org/handbook/departments.php (7) Evidence for the Impact-Enhancing Effect of OA Self-Archiving: http://www.dlib.org/dlib/june04/harnad/06harnad.html http://citebase.eprints.org/isi_study/ http://citebase.eprints.org/ http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/cs http://citebase.eprints.org/analysis/correlation.php http://opcit.eprints.org/ http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Temp/openaccess.ppt http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Temp/impact.html (8) BOAI Self-Archiving FAQ: http://www.eprints.org/self-faq/ (9) OSI Eprints Handbook: http://software.eprints.org/handbook/ (10) GNU Eprints Archive-Creating Software http://software.eprints.org/ (11) Standardized OAI CV template: http://paracite.eprints.org/cgi-bin/rae_front.cgi http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue35/harnad/ (12) Paracite Citation Seeker: http://paracite.eprints.org/ (13) Open Archives Initiative (OAI): http://www.openarchives.org/ (14) American Scientist Open Access Forum: http://amsci-forum.amsci.org/archives/American-Scientist-Open-Access-Forum.html (15) Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI): http://www.soros.org/openaccess/ (16) Berlin Declaration: http://www.zim.mpg.de/openaccess-berlin/berlindeclaration.html (17) SPARC Repository Resources: http://www.arl.org/sparc/core/index.asp?page=m0 (18) Directory of Open Access Journals http://www.doaj.org/ Stevan Harnad UNIVERSITIES: If you have adopted or plan to adopt an institutional policy of providing Open Access to your own research article output, please describe your policy at: http://www.eprints.org/signup/sign.php UNIFIED DUAL OPEN-ACCESS-PROVISION POLICY: BOAI-2 ("gold"): Publish your article in a suitable open-access journal whenever one exists. http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/boaifaq.htm#journals BOAI-1 ("green"): Otherwise, publish your article in a suitable toll-access journal and also self-archive it. http://www.eprints.org/self-faq/ http://www.soros.org/openaccess/read.shtml AMERICAN SCIENTIST OPEN ACCESS FORUM: A complete Hypermail archive of the ongoing discussion of providing open access to the peer-reviewed research literature online (1998-2004) is available at: http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/index.html To join the Forum: http://amsci-forum.amsci.org/archives/American-Scientist-Open-Access-Forum.html Post discussion to: american-scientist-open-access-forum@amsci.org