On Fri, 11 Feb 2005, Sally Morris (ALPSP) wrote:
> Institutional policies may be one step closer to Stevan's desired goal,
> but they are still not 'implementation' - that's when people actually do
> it!
"69% of NOA authors [authors who have not yet made their work Open
Access] would willingly deposit their articles in an open repository
if required to do so (by their employer or funder): a further 8% would
do so but not willingly, and only 3% would not be prepared to do so."
Swan, A. & Brown, S. (2004) Authors and open access publishing.
Learned Publishing 17: 219-224
http://www.keyperspectives.co.uk/OpenAccessArchive/Authors_and_open_access_publishing.pdf
A more recent author survey by Swan & Brown, likewise international,
finds that the percentage of authors who report they would self-archive
willingly if it were mandated by their employer or funder has since
risen from 69% to 79%.
The finding has been corroborated by C. Hajjem in Quebec, who found that
whereas only a minority of authors currently self-archive, 75% say that
an official institutional self-archiving policy is needed.
http://www.crsc.uqam.ca/lab/chawki/Auto-archivaeuqam.pdf
A recent survey in South Africa likewise recommends a National Information Policy
to
"require that scholars make their research available via an Open
Access mode of scholarly communication."
De Beer, J. (2005) Open Access scholarly communication in South
Africa : a role for National Information Policy in the National
System of Innovation. Master's Thesis in Information Science at
Stellenbosch University
http://eprints.rclis.org/archive/00003110/
In other words, the natural extension of "Publish or Perish" in the Online
Age is: "...and Self-Archive to Flourish."
http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/2837.html
Stevan Harnad
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UNIVERSITIES: If you have adopted or plan to adopt an institutional
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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
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Received on Sun Feb 13 2005 - 03:43:57 GMT