----- Original Message ----- From: "Stevan Harnad" To: "American Scientist Open Access Forum" Sent: Thursday, March 31, 2005 4:52 PM Subject: [BOAI] France's INRIA Registers Commitment to Implement Berlin DeclarationSelf-Archiving Policy Recommendation

Prof. Jean-Pierre Verjus, Director of Scientific Information and Communication for INRIA -- Institut national de recherche en informatique et en automatique (French National Institute for Research in Computer Sciences and Control) http://www.inria.fr/index.en.html -- has just signed the

Registry of Institutional OA Self-Archiving Policies http://www.eprints.org/signup/fulllist.php

INRIA is a national research institute with 6 units distributed across France and totalling about 3000 personnel.

This brings to 11 the number of universities and research institutes worldwide that have so far committed themselves to adopting a self-archiving policy to implement the Berlin Declaration (along the lines recommended by the Berlin 3 Meeting in Southampton on 1 March):

http://www.eprints.org/berlin3/outcomes.html

The tally of universities and research institutes that have adopted self-archiving policies to date is:

France (4: 2 national institutes, 1 local institute, 1 laboratory), Germany (2: 1 university + 1 local institute) Australia (1 university), India (1 local institute) Portugal (1 university) UK (1 university) CERN (1 multi-national laboratory)

This is only the beginning. The Institutional Archives Registry

http://archives.eprints.org/eprints.php?action=browse

lists a current total of 395 OAI-compliant Open Access Archives in universities and research institutes in 40 countries.

These universities and research institutes are now encouraged to adopt an institutional self-archiving policy and to register and describe it so that universites and research institutes worldwide can emulate them at:

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

Archive type (number):

* Research Institutional or Departmental (170) * e-Theses (54) * Research Cross-Institution (51) * Database (8) * e-Journal/Publication (37) * Demonstration (37) * Other (38)

Country (number):

* United States (116) * United Kingdom (52) * Germany (28) * Canada (26) * Brazil (18) * France (17) * Netherlands (16) * Australia (16) * Italy (14) * Sweden (11) * India (6) * Portugal (5) * Belgium (5) * Commercial (5) * Japan (4) * Denmark (4) * China (4) * Spain (4) * Finland (4) * Hungary (4) * Colombia (3) * Austria (3) * South Africa (3) * Switzerland (3) * Mexico (3) * Norway (3) * Singapore (2) * Chile (2) * Greece (2) * Ireland (2) * Network (1) * Argentina (1) * Turkey (1) * Russian Federation (1) * Namibia (1) * Peru (1) * Slovenia (1) * Israel (1) * Croatia (1) * Taiwan (1)

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