[LIS-Forum] Fwd: Re: On the Need to Take Both Roads to Open Access

Subbiah Arunachalam subbiah_a at yahoo.com
Sat Oct 4 14:30:10 IST 2003


>From Stevan Harnad <harnad at ecs.soton.ac.uk>:

> There will be an Open Access conference October
> 20-22 in Berlin. Below
> is a URL for the conference, followed by the
> abstract of my own paper
> (to be given in session 4.3):
> 
>         OPEN ACCESS TO KNOWLEDGE IN THE SCIENCES AND
> HUMANITIES
>     (organized by the Max Planck Society in
> association with ECHO)
>        
> http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Temp/berlin1.htm
>        
> http://www.zim.mpg.de/openaccess-berlin/index.htm
>                 October 20 - 22, 2003, Berlin
> 
>
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> My own paper will be entitled:
> 
>     On the Need to Support Both Open-Access
> Strategies:
>     Open-Access Publishing (P) and Open-Access
> Self-Archiving (S)
> 
>     Stevan Harnad
> 
>     ABSTRACT: It has taken a very long time for the
> research community
>     to at last awaken to the importance of, the need
> for, and the
>     attainability of toll-free online access to the
> full text of all
>     peer-reviewed research articles for all
> researchers ("open
>     access"). There are two roads to open access:
> (P) Open-Access
>     Publishing and (S) Open-Access Self-Archiving.
> It would be a great
>     pity, and a great loss for open-access and
> research impact, if
>     today's long-overdue open-access initiatives
> were now to be focused
>     exclusively, or even primarily, on Open-Access
> Publishing (P), which
>     may be the easier concept to understand, but is
> the slower, more
>     indirect and more uncertain of the two means of
> attaining open access
>     today. Open-access publishing requires 3 steps:
> 
>         (P1) creating or converting 23,500
> open-access journals (there
>         are only 500 open-access journals today, and
> 23,500 toll-access
>         journals),
> 
>         (P2) finding a means of covering open-access
> publication costs
>         (varying from <$500 to >$1500 per article),
> and
> 
>         (P3) persuading the authors of each of the
> 2,500,000 refereed
>         research articles published annually to
> publish them in these
>         23,500 new open-access journals instead of
> in the 23,500
>         established toll-access journals.
> 
>     Open-access self-archiving requires only  one
> step:
> 
>         (S1) persuading the authors of each of the
> annual 2,500,000
>         refereed research articles to self-archive
> them in addition to
>         publishing them in the established 23,500
> toll-access journals.
> 
>     As 55% of the established journals already
> support self-archiving
>     (and many more will agree if asked),
> 
>
http://www.lboro.ac.uk/departments/ls/disresearch/romeo/Romeo%20Publisher%20Policies.htm
> 
>     and as at least three times as many articles are
> open-access today
>     because their authors have self-archived them
> than because they
>     have been published in an open-access journal,
> 
>
http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Temp/dual-strategy.ppt
> 
>     it is undeniable that self-archiving is the
> faster, more direct,
>     and more certain of the two means of attaining
> open-access
>     today. Moreover, self-archiving is probably also
> the single most
>     powerful means of hastening us all toward the
> era of universal
>     open-access publishing! The optimal joint
> open-access strategy that
>     the Berlin Declaration should accordingly
> support and promote is
>     that all researchers should:
> 
>         (P) publish in an open-access journal today
> wherever a suitable
>         open-access journal is available today;
> 
>         and
> 
>         (S) wherever a suitable open-access journal
> is not available
>         today, publish in a toll-access journal but
> also self-archive
>         the article in your institutional
> open-access archive today.
> 
>     Fully support both open-access publishing (P)
> and open-access
>     self-archiving (S).
> 
> Harnad, S. (2003) Electronic Preprints and
> Postprints. Encyclopedia of
> Library and Information Science Marcel Dekker, Inc.
> http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Temp/eprints.htm
> 
> Harnad, S. (2003) Online Archives for Peer-Reviewed
> Journal
> Publications. International Encyclopedia of Library
> and Information
> Science. John Feather & Paul Sturges (eds).
> Routledge.
> http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Temp/archives.htm
> 
> Harnad, S. (2003) Self-Archive Unto Others as Ye
> Would Have Them
> Self-Archive Unto You.
> The Australian Higher Education Supplement.
>
http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Temp/unto-others.html
> 
> Harnad, S., Carr, L., Brody, T. & Oppenheim, C.
> (2003) Mandated online
> RAE CVs Linked to University Eprint Archives:
> Improving the UK Research Assessment Exercise whilst
> making it cheaper
> and easier. Ariadne.
>
http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Temp/Ariadne-RAE.htm
> 
> Harnad, S. (2003) Maximising Research Impact Through
> Self-Archiving.
> http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Temp/che.htm
> 
>
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> 
> Stevan Harnad
> Chaire de Recherche du Canada
> Centre de Neuroscience de la Cognition (CNC)
> Universite du Quebec a Montreal
> Montreal, Quebec,  Canada  H3C 3P8
> tel: 1-514-987-3000 2461#
> fax: 1-514-987-8952
> harnad at uqam.ca
> http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/ 

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