There will be an Open Access conference October 20-22 in Berlin. Below
is a URL for the conference, followed by the abstract of my own paper
(to be given in session 4.3):
OPEN ACCESS TO KNOWLEDGE IN THE SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES
(organized by the Max Planck Society in association with ECHO)
http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Temp/berlin1.htm
http://www.zim.mpg.de/openaccess-berlin/index.htm
October 20 - 22, 2003, Berlin
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My own paper will be entitled:
On the Need to Support Both Open-Access Strategies:
Open-Access Publishing (P) and Open-Access Self-Archiving (S)
Stevan Harnad
ABSTRACT: It has taken a very long time for the research community
to at last awaken to the importance of, the need for, and the
attainability of toll-free online access to the full text of all
peer-reviewed research articles for all researchers ("open
access"). There are two roads to open access: (P) Open-Access
Publishing and (S) Open-Access Self-Archiving. It would be a great
pity, and a great loss for open-access and research impact, if
today's long-overdue open-access initiatives were now to be focused
exclusively, or even primarily, on Open-Access Publishing (P), which
may be the easier concept to understand, but is the slower, more
indirect and more uncertain of the two means of attaining open access
today. Open-access publishing requires 3 steps:
(P1) creating or converting 23,500 open-access journals (there
are only 500 open-access journals today, and 23,500 toll-access
journals),
(P2) finding a means of covering open-access publication costs
(varying from <$500 to >$1500 per article), and
(P3) persuading the authors of each of the 2,500,000 refereed
research articles published annually to publish them in these
23,500 new open-access journals instead of in the 23,500
established toll-access journals.
Open-access self-archiving requires only one step:
(S1) persuading the authors of each of the annual 2,500,000
refereed research articles to self-archive them in addition to
publishing them in the established 23,500 toll-access journals.
As 55% of the established journals already support self-archiving
(and many more will agree if asked),
http://www.lboro.ac.uk/departments/ls/disresearch/romeo/Romeo%20Publisher%20Policies.htm
and as at least three times as many articles are open-access today
because their authors have self-archived them than because they
have been published in an open-access journal,
http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Temp/dual-strategy.ppt
it is undeniable that self-archiving is the faster, more direct,
and more certain of the two means of attaining open-access
today. Moreover, self-archiving is probably also the single most
powerful means of hastening us all toward the era of universal
open-access publishing! The optimal joint open-access strategy that
the Berlin Declaration should accordingly support and promote is
that all researchers should:
(P) publish in an open-access journal today wherever a suitable
open-access journal is available today;
and
(S) wherever a suitable open-access journal is not available
today, publish in a toll-access journal but also self-archive
the article in your institutional open-access archive today.
Fully support both open-access publishing (P) and open-access
self-archiving (S).
Harnad, S. (2003) Electronic Preprints and Postprints. Encyclopedia of
Library and Information Science Marcel Dekker, Inc.
http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Temp/eprints.htm
Harnad, S. (2003) Online Archives for Peer-Reviewed Journal
Publications. International Encyclopedia of Library and Information
Science. John Feather & Paul Sturges (eds). Routledge.
http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Temp/archives.htm
Harnad, S. (2003) Self-Archive Unto Others as Ye Would Have Them
Self-Archive Unto You.
The Australian Higher Education Supplement.
http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Temp/unto-others.html
Harnad, S., Carr, L., Brody, T. & Oppenheim, C. (2003) Mandated online
RAE CVs Linked to University Eprint Archives:
Improving the UK Research Assessment Exercise whilst making it cheaper
and easier. Ariadne.
http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Temp/Ariadne-RAE.htm
Harnad, S. (2003) Maximising Research Impact Through Self-Archiving.
http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Temp/che.htm
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Stevan Harnad
Chaire de Recherche du Canada
Centre de Neuroscience de la Cognition (CNC)
Universite du Quebec a Montreal
Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3C 3P8
tel: 1-514-987-3000 2461#
fax: 1-514-987-8952
harnad_at_uqam.ca
http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/
Received on Fri Oct 03 2003 - 18:26:15 BST