Here is a message from Prof. Stevan Harnad about the growing demand from US universities for adopting open access institutional archiving. Stevan recommends Immediate Deposit/ Optional Access. Which means authors deposit all their published papers IMMEDIATELY on publication (even if he/she has surrendered the copyright to the journal). If there are no copyright problems the deposited paper could be made available for universal viewing, downloading, etc. immediately. If the journal has an embargo policy, the paper could be released fr universal viewing at the end of the embargo period. Universities and research institutions in the developing countries will do well to follow this practice. Best wishes. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam] --- Stevan Harnad <harnad@ECS.SOTON.AC.UK> wrote:

Date: Fri, 8 Sep 2006 00:37:58 +0100 From: Stevan Harnad <harnad@ECS.SOTON.AC.UK> Subject: 115 US university presidents and provosts endorse FRPAA self-archiving mandate proposal

More US university presidents and provosts are signing to support the proposed FRPAA self-archiving mandate. Let us hope that they will not now sit waiting for the Act to pass, but will sign a self-archiving mandate for their own university (the Immediate-Deposit/Optional-Access [IDOA] mandate is the optimal one, *infinitely* preferable to Optional Delayed Deposit mandates)

http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/71-guid.html

and then register it in ROARMAP for other universities to emulate:

http://www.eprints.org/signup/fulllist.php

(UK vice-chancellors and pro-vice-chancellors should hasten to adopt IDOA too, now that half the RCUK research councils and the Wellcome Trust have already mandated self-archiving! The European Commission is next...)

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[From Peter Suber's Open Access News]

http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2006_09_03_fosblogarchive.html#1157657847...

115 presidents and provosts endorse FRPAA The SPARC list

http://www.arl.org/sparc/advocacy/frpaa/institutions.html

of presidents and provosts who have publicly endorsed FRPAA

http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d109:s.02695:

now includes the 53 liberal arts college presidents who signed the September 5 Oberlin Group letter. http://www.oberlingroup.org/about/frpaa.pdf The total is now a very impressive 115.

Posted by Peter Suber in OA News at 9/07/2006 03:33:00 PM.

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