Call to Register Universities' Open Access Mandates in ROARMAP Stevan Harnad 23 Jul 2009 11:48 UTC
ROAR is the Registry of Open Access Repositories http://archives.eprints.org/eprints.php?action=browse ROARMAP is the Registry of Open Access Repository Material Archiving Policies http://www.eprints.org/signup/fulllist.php The purpose of ROARMAP is to register and record the open-access policies of those institutions and funders who are putting the principle of Open Access (as expressed by the Budapest Open Access Initiative and theBerlin Declaration) into practice as recommended by Berlin 3 (as well as the UK Government Science and Technology Committee). http://www.eprints.org/berlin3/outcomes.html http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200304/cmselect/cmsctech/399/39903.htm Universities, research institutions and research funders: If you have adopted a mandate to provide open access to your own peer-reviewed research output you are invited to click here to register and describe your mandate in ROARMAP. http://www.eprints.org/openaccess/policysignup/sign.php#fr (For suggestions about the form of policy to adopt, see here.) http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/494-guid.html Registering your OA mandate in ROARMAP will: (1) record your own institution's commitment to providing open access to its own research output, (2) help the research community measure its progress (see growth curve, provided by Alma Swan in Oasis) in providing open access worldwide, http://www.openoasis.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=144&Itemid=338 and (3) encourage further institutions to adopt open-access mandates (so that your own institution's users can have access to the research output of other institutions as well). Sample Institutional Self-Archiving Mandate http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/71-guid.html "For the purposes of institutional record-keeping, research asset management, and performance-evaluation, and in order to maximize the visibility, accessibility, usage and impact of our institution's research output, our institution's researchers are henceforth to deposit the final, peer-reviewed, accepted drafts of all their journal articles (and accepted theses) into our institution's institutional repository immediately upon acceptance for publication." To register and describe your mandate, please click here: http://www.eprints.org/openaccess/policysignup/sign.php#fr