Date: Sat, 6 Mar 2004 11:06:30 +0530
From: Subbiah Arunachalam
Subject: Institutional Archives
Call for self-archiving
Katie Mantell, 'Self-archiving' urged for developing world scientists
<http://www.scidev.net/news/index.cfm?fuseaction=readnews&itemid=1261&langua
ge=1>, SciDev.Net, March 5, 2004.
On a widely distributed letter
http://www.scidev.net/ms/OA_letter/ by Subbiah Arunachalam, Leslie Chan,
and Barbara Kirsop, calling on authors from developing countries to
self-archive. Excerpt from the SciDev article: "Many current initiatives to
free up access to scientific research focus on the development of
open-access journals, which provide free online access to users, normally
covering their costs by charging scientists to publish their research. The
authors of the letter welcome this as a long-term strategy. But they add
that for those in the developing world who cannot wait, it is better to
encourage researchers to archive their published research in institutional
archives." (PS: This call is exactly right, but shouldn't be misunderstood
as applying only to scientists and scholars from the developing world.
Self-archiving benefits all researchers. If the concept is new to you, see
the Self-Archiving FAQ http://www.eprints.org/self-faq/.)
