--- Stevan Harnad wrote:

Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2005 21:58:25 +0100 From: Stevan Harnad Subject: Open Access to Oeuvre of Bosc and of Chanier on Open Access To:

AMERICAN-SCIENTIST-OPEN-ACCESS-FORUM@LISTSERVER.SIGMAXI.ORG

(1) There has been dramatic Open Access Progress in France

http://archives.eprints.org/eprints.php?page=all&country=fr

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

This progress owes a great deal to its earliest and most dedicated Hexagonal champion, Helene Bosc (who is reputed to be retiring this year, but of course such rumours can never really be given much credence de facto even if true de jure when they concern such indefatigable individuals).

Below is a list of some of HB'S pertinent work. See especially her recent chapter in Aubry & Janik (2005) and her website:

http://www.tours.inra.fr/prc/internet/documentation/communication_scientifiq...

(2) Another formidable Open Access champion in France is Thierry Chanier, whose work is on the Technology of Information and Communication in Education (TICE). His specialty is scientific publication in the humanities and social sciences, he has founded several Open Access Journals, and now he has written an excellent and very up-to-date book on Open Archives and Open Access:

Chanier, T. (2004) Archives ouvertes et publication scientifique: Comment mettre en place l'accès libre aux résultats de la recherche? [Open Archives and Scientific Publication: How to Provide Open Access to Research Results?] L'Harmatan, Paris. Open Access Full Text:

http://archivesic.ccsd.cnrs.fr/documents/archives0/00/00/14/86/index_fr.html

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Bosc, H. (2005) Archives ouvertes : quinze ans d'histoire [Open Archives: Fifteen Years of History]. In Aubry, C. and Janik, J., Eds. Les Archives Ouvertes : enjeux et pratiques. Guide à l'usage des professionnels de l'information, pages pp. 27-54. ADBS, Paris. Open Access Full Text: http://cogprints.org/4408/ [In French] English Summary: Both the idea and the benefits of providing open access to scientific publications are now coming to be understood by a growing number of researchers who publish in new open access journals. However, the potential of the complementary strategy of self-archiving in Open Archives -- which could provide immediate open access to all scientific articles -- is still under-utilized. This chapter describes the various attempts in the last fifteen years to generalize the self-archiving practice first adopted by physicists, who have been providing open access to their work since 1991. The benefits of self-archiving and open archives are explained. The adoption of the practice of self-archiving by researchers and their institutions is still too slow. The reasons for this delay are discussed. The official policies adopted by various institutions following the Berlin 3 meeting in Southampton (UK) now makes it more likely that the practice of self-archiving will spread considerably in 2005.The open access thereby provided will increase the scientific impact of research worldwide

Bosc, H. and Harnad, S. (2005) In a paperless world a new role for academic libraries: Providing Open Access. Learned Publishing. http://cogprints.org/4200/

Bosc, H. (2004) Pour une plus grande visibilité des travaux des chercheurs : l'exemple de l'archive ouverte PhysiologieAnimale http://cogprints.org/4412/

Bosc, H. (2003) La Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI) pour un libre accès aux résultats de la recherche. Terminal. http://cogprints.org/4409/

Bosc, H. (2003) Le droit des auteurs à mettre en accès libre leurs propres résultats de recherche [Authors' right to provide open access to their own research results.]. http://cogprints.org/4411/

Bosc, H (2002) Mise en service d'une archive numérique. Launching an archive. http://cogprints.org/4415/ http://cogprints.org/4416/

Bosc, H. (2001) Partager et utiliser des connaissances scientifiques: de la responsabilité individuelle à la responsabilité collective. INRA mensuel. http://cogprints.org/4410/

Stevan Harnad

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