Dramatic progress in the adoption of OA self-archiving mandates Stevan Harnad 23 Jul 2006 13:27 UTC
** Apologies for Cross-Posting ** There has been dramatic progress in the adoption of Open Access Self-Archiving Mandates lately. ROARMAP (Registry of Open Access Repository Material Archiving Policies) http://www.eprints.org/signup/fulllist.php and ROAR (Registry of Open Access Repositories) http://archives.eprints.org/ now list: 497 institutional repositories registered to date 29 institutional or funder self-archiving policies *10 self-archiving mandates **4 funder self-archiving mandates *AUSTRALIA Queensland U. Technology *EUROPE CERN FRANCE CNRS FRANCE INRA FRANCE INRIA FRANCE Institut Jean Nicod FRANCE Inst fr rech exploit mer FRANCE U Lumiere Lyon 2 GERMANY Bielefeld U GERMANY Humboldt U GERMANY Inst Sci Net Oldenburg GERMANY Potsdam U. GERMANY U Bremen GERMANY U Hamburg *INDIA Nat Inst Tech Rourkela NORWAY U Oslo *PORTUGAL U Minho SWEDEN Lund U *SWITZERLAND U Zurich UK CCLRC UK U Southampton **UK BBSRC **UK ESRC **UK MRC *UK U Southampton ECS **UK Wellcome Trust USA Case Western USA NIH USA U Kansas If your university or research institutions or research funding agency has an Open Access Self-Archiving policy, please register it in ROARMAP: http://www.eprints.org/openaccess/policysignup/sign.php and register your institutional repository (IR) in ROAR: http://archives.eprints.org/?action=add You can track the growth of the number and nature of OA policies in ROARMAP and the growth in the number and size of IRs in ROAR. Stevan Harnad AMERICAN SCIENTIST OPEN ACCESS FORUM: A complete Hypermail archive of the ongoing discussion of providing open access to the peer-reviewed research literature online (1998-2005) is available at: http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/ To join or leave the Forum or change your subscription address: http://amsci-forum.amsci.org/archives/American-Scientist-Open-Access-Forum.html Post discussion to: american-scientist-open-access-forum@amsci.org 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-1 ("green"): Publish your article in a suitable toll-access journal http://romeo.eprints.org/ OR BOAI-2 ("gold"): Publish your article in a open-access journal if/when a suitable one exists. http://www.doaj.org/ AND in BOTH cases self-archive a supplementary version of your article in your institutional repository. http://www.eprints.org/self-faq/ http://archives.eprints.org/ http://openaccess.eprints.org/