Re: Open access jeremiads, archivangelism and self-archiving mandates William Walsh 26 Sep 2006 20:16 UTC
Dan, I'm sure Stevan can (and will) answer for himself, but not every institution in this policy registry is labeled as having a mandate. The ones that are carry the tag mandate next to the country field. Bill William Walsh Head, Acquisitions Department Georgia State University Library 100 Decatur Street, SE Atlanta, GA 30303 Phone: 404.651.2149 Fax: 404.651.2148 Email: wwalsh@gsu.edu >>> Dan Lester <dan@riverofdata.com> 9/25/2006 3:27 PM >>> Saturday, August 19, 2006, 9:58:05 PM, you wrote: SH> Only the empirical example of those institutions that already SH> mandate self-archiving, and have thus demonstrated the success of SH> mandated self-archiving, will generate self-archiving mandates -- and SH> self-archiving, and 100% OA. SH> http://www.eprints.org/signup/fulllist.php A bit late for a response, oh Jeremiah, but.... Your page lists Kansas as one that "mandates" self archiving: However, the following quote from their policy page, for which I thank you for providing a link, says: "Calls on all faculty of the University of Kansas to seek amendments to publisher s copyright transfer forms to permit the deposition of a digital copy of every article accepted by a peer-reviewed journal into the ScholarWorks repository, or a similar open access venue;" That sounds like a nice positive thing to do, but hardly qualifies as a mandate to me. And for NIH, another non-mandate: "strongly encourages all NIH-funded investigators to make their peer-reviewed author final manuscripts available to other researchers and the public at the NIH National Library of Medicine s (NLM) PubMed Central (PMC)" And at Cornell: "The Senate strongly urges all faculty to deposit preprint or postprint copies of articles in an open access repository" And, finally at Case Western: "Be it resolved that the Faculty Senate urges the University and its members to...Post their work prior to publication in an open digital archive" Those are the four from the USA on the list. I didn't take the time to review those from the UK or Australia or elsewhere. Although they all say good and appropriate things, I don't see that a single one has a mandate, much less one from someone who could enforce it, such as a Provost. So, they encourage OA, but they do NOT mandate it. Perhaps we should be more precise in our usage of the English language? Or maybe it is a problem of translation from Hebrew or Aramaic or something else? dan -- Dan Lester, Data Wrangler dan@RiverOfData.com 208-283-7711 3577 East Pecan, Boise, Idaho 83716-7115 USA www.riverofdata.com The Road Goes On Forever....