The University of Bremen, Germany
has signed the
Registry of Institutional OA Self-Archiving Policies
http://www.eprints.org/signup/fulllist.php
http://archives.eprints.org/?url=http%3A%2F%2Felib.suub.uni-bremen.de%2F
http://www.eprints.org/signup/fullinfo.php?inst=University%20of%20Bremen
in accordance with the Berlin-3 recommendation:
http://www.eprints.org/berlin3/outcomes.html
That now makes it 6+ countries and 13+ institutions who have registered their
existing or planned OA self-archiving policies so far:
Germany (4),
France (3+)
US (2)
UK (1+)
Portugal (1),
Australia (1)
Multinational (CERN) (1)
But the rank orders are a little misleading, as France's institutions
include the CNRS, a nation-wide network of laboratories that constitutes a
multidisciplinary mega-institution
http://www.eprints.org/signup/fullinfo.php?inst=CNRS%20%28Centre%20National%20de%20la%20recherche%20scientifique%29
And it looks as if Germany might soon have a similar mega-institution
signing (the Max-Planck institutions):
http://159.226.100.146/%BB%E1%D2%E9%BF%CE%BC%FE/Session_3-1(George_Botz).pdf
Also, of the 13+ institutions with self-archiving policies, two of them
already have adopted a self-archiving *requirement* rather than merely
a self-archiving *recommendation*: the UK's University of Southampton
(ECS) and the Multinational Laboratory, CERN). This stronger policy is
also reflected in the fact that the policies have also generated a >90%
self-archiving rate for current research output:
http://www.eprints.org/signup/fullinfo.php?inst=University%20of%20Southampton%20Department%20of%20Electronics%20and%20Computer%20Science
and
http://www.eprints.org/signup/fullinfo.php?inst=CERN%3A%20European%20Organization%20for%20Nuclear%20Research
And if all goes well, the UK may soon be the first country to have a
nation-wide self-archiving requirement for all RCUK-funded research:
http://www.rcuk.ac.uk/access/statement.pdf
American Scientist Open Access Forum Topic Thread:
"The self-archiving sweepstakes" (began 2003)
http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/2662.html
http://listserver.sigmaxi.org/sc/wa.exe?A1=ind03&L=american-scientist-open-access-forum&F=l#190
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_at_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/
Received on Sat Jul 09 2005 - 20:48:53 BST