[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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