University of Bremen Registers its Open Access Self-Archiving Policy

From: Stevan Harnad <harnad_at_ecs.soton.ac.uk>
Date: Sat, 9 Jul 2005 20:48:53 +0100

    The University of Bremen, Germany
        has signed the
    Registry of Institutional OA Self-Archiving Policies
    http://www.eprints.org/signup/fulllist.php

http://archives.eprints.org/?url=http%3A%2F%2Felib.suub.uni-bremen.de%2F
http://www.eprints.org/signup/fullinfo.php?inst=University%20of%20Bremen

   in accordance with the Berlin-3 recommendation:
   http://www.eprints.org/berlin3/outcomes.html

That now makes it 6+ countries and 13+ institutions who have registered their
existing or planned OA self-archiving policies so far:

    Germany (4),
    France (3+)
    US (2)
    UK (1+)
    Portugal (1),
    Australia (1)
    Multinational (CERN) (1)

But the rank orders are a little misleading, as France's institutions
include the CNRS, a nation-wide network of laboratories that constitutes a
multidisciplinary mega-institution
http://www.eprints.org/signup/fullinfo.php?inst=CNRS%20%28Centre%20National%20de%20la%20recherche%20scientifique%29

And it looks as if Germany might soon have a similar mega-institution
signing (the Max-Planck institutions):
http://159.226.100.146/%BB%E1%D2%E9%BF%CE%BC%FE/Session_3-1(George_Botz).pdf

Also, of the 13+ institutions with self-archiving policies, two of them
already have adopted a self-archiving *requirement* rather than merely
a self-archiving *recommendation*: the UK's University of Southampton
(ECS) and the Multinational Laboratory, CERN). This stronger policy is
also reflected in the fact that the policies have also generated a >90%
self-archiving rate for current research output:

http://www.eprints.org/signup/fullinfo.php?inst=University%20of%20Southampton%20Department%20of%20Electronics%20and%20Computer%20Science
and
http://www.eprints.org/signup/fullinfo.php?inst=CERN%3A%20European%20Organization%20for%20Nuclear%20Research

And if all goes well, the UK may soon be the first country to have a
nation-wide self-archiving requirement for all RCUK-funded research:

    http://www.rcuk.ac.uk/access/statement.pdf

American Scientist Open Access Forum Topic Thread:

    "The self-archiving sweepstakes" (began 2003)
    http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/2662.html
http://listserver.sigmaxi.org/sc/wa.exe?A1=ind03&L=american-scientist-open-access-forum&F=l#190

Stevan Harnad

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UNIVERSITIES: If you have adopted or plan to adopt an institutional
policy of providing Open Access to your own research article output,
please describe your policy at:
        http://www.eprints.org/signup/sign.php

UNIFIED DUAL OPEN-ACCESS-PROVISION POLICY:
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