Here is the abstract of a talk Stevan Harnad will deliver at Indiana University on 5 April 2005. Please spread the word about the advantages of institutional archiving. Arun Maximizing Research Impact Through Institutional Self-Archiving Stevan Harnad Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southhampton Abstract: There are two roads to Open Access (OA) (toll-free online full-text access to peer-reviewed journal articles)/ The "golden" road is for the world's 24,000 peer-reviewed journals to convert from the user-institution cost-recovery model to the author-institution cost-recovery model (OA Journal Publishing), as about 5% of them have done. There is still some risk and uncertainty associated with this untested gold-journal cost-recovery model, however, so most journals (91%) have instead taken the "green" road, giving their authors the green light to provide OA for their own individual articles if they wish, by self-archiving them in their own institutional OA Eprint Archives. There is still much confusion about these two very different roads to OA, with some thinking that OA = OA Publishing (gold). Some also think OA is only or mainly to solve the libraries' serials crisis (the journal pricing/affordability problem), whereas the real problem OA is intended to solve is the researchers' access/impact problem. The proposed US, UK, Australian and Canadian mandates to self-archive all funded research are also widely misunderstood as mandating gold, pressuring publishers toward adopting the OA Journal cost-recovery model, whereas they are in fact mandating green, pressuring fundees to provide OA for their findings by self-archiving them. I will present quantitative evidence on the degree to which supplementing the licensed journal access version of an article with an author self-archived Open Access version of the same article increases both the citation impact and the usage (download) impact of the article; the evidence also shows that download impact today can predict citation impact in 2 years. More information. Biographical Sketch: Stevan Harnad was born in Hungary, did his undergraduate work at McGill University and his graduate work at Princeton University, and is currently Canada Research Chair in Cognitive Science at University of Quebec/Montreal. His research is on categorisation, communication and cognition. Founder and Editor of Behavioral and Brain Sciences (a paper journal published by Cambridge University Press), Psycoloquy (an electronic journal sponsored by the American Psychological Association), and the CogPrints Electronic Preprint Archive in the Cognitive Sciences. He is Past President of the Society for Philosopy and Psychology, and author and contributor to over 150 publications, including Origins and Evolution of Language and Speech (NY Academy of Sciences 1976), Lateralization in the Nervous System (Academic Press 1977), Peer Commentary on Peer Review: A Case Study in Scientific Quality Control (Cambridge University Press 1982), Categorical Perception: The Groundwork of Cognition (Cambridge University Press 1987), The Selection of Behavior: The Operant Behaviorism of BF Skinner: Comments and Consequences (Cambridge University Press 1988) and Icon, Category, Symbol: Essays on the Foundations and Fringes of Cognition (in prep). Here is the abstract of a talk Stevan Harnad will deliver at Indiana University on 5 April 2005. Please spread the word about the advantages of institutional archiving. Arun Maximizing Research Impact Through Institutional Self-Archiving Stevan Harnad Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southhampton Abstract: There are two roads to Open Access (OA) (toll-free online full-text access to peer-reviewed journal articles)/ The "golden" road is for the world's 24,000 peer-reviewed journals to convert from the user-institution cost-recovery model to the author-institution cost-recovery model ( http://www.doaj.org/ OA Journal Publishing ), as about 5% of them have done. There is still some risk and uncertainty associated with this untested gold-journal cost-recovery model, however, so http://romeo.eprints.org/stats.php most journals (91%) have instead taken the "green" road, giving their authors the green light to provide OA for their own individual articles if they wish, by self-archiving them in their own institutional http://archives.eprints.org/eprints.php?action=browse OA Eprint Archives . There is still much confusion about these two very different roads to OA, with some thinking that OA = OA Publishing (gold). Some also think OA is only or mainly to solve the libraries' serials crisis (the journal pricing/affordability problem), whereas the real problem OA is intended to solve is the researchers' access/impact problem. The proposed US, UK, Australian and Canadian mandates to self-archive all funded research are also widely misunderstood as mandating gold, pressuring publishers toward adopting the OA Journal cost-recovery model, whereas they are in fact mandating green, pressuring fundees to provide OA for their findings by self-archiving them. I will present quantitative evidence on the degree to which supplementing the licensed journal access version of an article with an author self-archived Open Access version of the same article increases both the citation impact and the usage (download) impact of the article; the evidence also shows that download impact today can predict citation impact in 2 years. http://citebase.eprints.org/isi_study/ More information . Biographical Sketch: http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/ Stevan Harnad was born in Hungary, did his undergraduate work at McGill University and his graduate work at Princeton University, and is currently Canada Research Chair in Cognitive Science at University of Quebec/Montreal. His research is on categorisation, communication and cognition. Founder and Editor of http://www.bbsonline.org/ Behavioral and Brain Sciences (a paper journal published by Cambridge University Press), http://psycprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/ Psycoloquy (an electronic journal sponsored by the American Psychological Association), and the http://cogprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/ CogPrints Electronic Preprint Archive in the Cognitive Sciences. He is Past President of the Society for Philosopy and Psychology, and author and contributor to over 150 publications, including Origins and Evolution of Language and Speech (NY Academy of Sciences 1976), Lateralization in the Nervous System (Academic Press 1977), Peer Commentary on Peer Review: A Case Study in Scientific Quality Control (Cambridge University Press 1982), Categorical Perception: The Groundwork of Cognition (Cambridge University Press 1987), The Selection of Behavior: The Operant Behaviorism of BF Skinner: Comments and Consequences (Cambridge University Press 1988) and Icon, Category, Symbol: Essays on the Foundations and Fringes of Cognition (in prep).