It is my great pleasure and honour to announce that India's and the Developing World's great advocate for open access, Subbiah Arunachalam has become Co-Director of the CogPrints Archive http://cogprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/ Professor Arunachalam will be specifically in charge of the growing Journals sector of CogPrints: * JOURNALS o Asian Student Medical Journal o Behavioral & Brain Sciences o Calicut Medical Journal o Indian Pacing and Electrophysiology Journal o Internet Health o Medical Education Online + MEO Peer Reviewed + MEO PrePrint o Online Journal of Health and Allied Sciences o Psycoloquy This sector hosts online journals (in any discipline) that wish to self-archive their contents centrally. This sector grew out of a natural evolution of CogPrints in a transitional period when distributed institutional self-archiving is replacing central CogPrints-style self-archiving. "Central vs. Distributed Archives" http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/0293.html "Central versus institutional self-archiving" http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/3208.html Thanks to OAI-interoperability, all these archives are now equivalent, interoperable, and hence integrable into one big virtual archive in OAI-space -- e.g. http://oaister.umdl.umich.edu/o/oaister/ As a result, more and more cognitive science papers will be self-archived in their authors' own institutional OAI archives (for which the Eprints.org software is an adaptation of the CogPrints software: http://software.eprints.org/#ep2 ). It is only natural, then, that CogPrints should make its central archiving capacity available to those who need it, including authors whose institutions do not yet have their own Eprint Archives (or authors without institutions) and journals that wish to self-archive their contents centrally. No one on the planet is more closely and deeply identified with the cause of researchers and journals who lack the resources to make their output openly accessible than is Professor Arunachalam. We are deeply grateful for his generous collaboration. Stevan Harnad NOTE: A complete archive of the ongoing discussion of providing open access to the peer-reviewed research literature online is available at the American Scientist Open Access Forum (98 & 99 & 00 & 01 & 02 & 03): http://amsci-forum.amsci.org/archives/september98-forum.html http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/index.html Post discussion to: september98-forum@amsci-forum.amsci.org Dual Open-Access-Provision Policy: BOAI-2 ("gold"): Publish your article in a suitable open-access journal whenever one exists. BOAI-1 ("green"): Otherwise, publish your article in a suitable toll-access journal and also self-archive it. http://www.soros.org/openaccess/read.shtml http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Temp/berlin.htm http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Temp/self-archiving_files/Slide0026.gif http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Temp/self-archiving_files/Slide0021.gif http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Temp/self-archiving_files/Slide0024.gif http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Temp/self-archiving_files/Slide0028.gif