Re: Public Access Mandate Made Law (fwd)

From: Stevan Harnad <harnad_at_ecs.soton.ac.uk>
Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2007 13:27:08 +0000

> Washington, D.C., December 26, 2007:
> the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2007 (H.R. 2764) includes a
> provision directing the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to provide the
> public with open online access to findings from its funded research.
    https://mx2.arl.org/Lists/SPARC-OAForum/Message/4133.html

Worldwide, that now makes 21 funder mandates, 11 institutional mandates,
and 3 departmental mandates, plus 5 proposed funder mandates, 1 proposed
institutional mandate, and 2 proposed multi-institutional mandates --
a total of 35 mandates already adopted and 8 more proposed so far. See
ROARMAP: http://www.eprints.org/openaccess/policysignup/

2008 will now be the year of institutional Green OA self-archiving
mandates. Research funder mandates cover funded research output in the
funder's field. Institutional mandates cover all of research output,
across all fields and nations.
http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/71-guid.html

The optimal way for funder and institutional mandates to complement one
another and to ensure that mandates swiftly and systematically scale up
to encompass all of research output worldwide is for both kinds of
mandates to require deposit directly in the researcher's own
Institutional Repository. Central Repositories, indexers, and search
engines can then harvest from the distributed network of
OAI-interoperable Institutional Repositories.
http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/136-guid.html

Stevan Harnad
AMERICAN SCIENTIST OPEN ACCESS FORUM:
http://amsci-forum.amsci.org/archives/American-Scientist-Open-Access-Forum.h
tml
    http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/

UNIVERSITIES and RESEARCH FUNDERS:
If you have adopted or plan to adopt a policy of providing Open Access
to your own research article output, please describe your policy at:
    http://www.eprints.org/signup/sign.php
    http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/71-guid.html
    http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/136-guid.html

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 an 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 own institutional repository.
    http://www.eprints.org/self-faq/
    http://archives.eprints.org/
    http://openaccess.eprints.org/
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