On Tue, 4 Apr 2006, David Goodman wrote:
> Is UQaM actually planning to _require_ self-archving?
So far, UQaM has only signed the Berlin Declaration. Soon they will
adopt "une directive," which is not quite a mandate, but I hope it will
prove just as effective.
> That would be a truly notable accomplishment, for your other university
> (Southampton) does not yet require it, though your
> department (ECS) does.
Southampton is very near to adopting a mandate, and in fact it is in a
race with at least two other UK universities I know of for becoming the
first UK university with a university-wide mandate. (May the best
man-date win!)
> Similarly CERN, so far the lagest organization to require
> self archiving, reports that
> some researchers do not cooperate, and the library staff
> needs to obtain copies from journals or the web.
> http://library.cern.ch/HEPLW/12/papers/2/
Unless I am mistaken, the library intervention is needed mostly for
CERN's huge legacy literature, stretching back decades. Strictly
speaking, a mandate can only be for the forward-going literature (today
and onward), because authors may not have digital copies of their
earlier work. (They may no longer even be at CERN, or alive!)
Stevan Harnad
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Stevan Harnad <harnad_at_ecs.soton.ac.uk>
> Date: Tuesday, April 4, 2006 1:48 pm
> Subject: [SOAF] Universite du Quebec a Montreal
> becomes first North American University to sign Berlin Declaration on Open
> Access
> To: SPARC Open Access Forum <SPARC-OAForum_at_arl.org>
>
> > L'université du Québec à Montréal devint la premiére université
> > nord-américaine à signer la déclaration de Berlin pour l'accès libre.
> >
> > The Université du Québec à Montréal has become the first North
> > AmericanUniversity to sign the Berlin Declaration.
> >
> >
>
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2006_03_26_fosblogarchive.html#114390894155983163
> >
> > http://www.zim.mpg.de/openaccess-berlin/signatories.html
> >
> > Berlin is a Declaration of principle. The next step is to put it into
> > practice, which UQaM is likewise preparing to do shortly, by
> > relaunchingits Institutional Repository (version:
> > http://eprints2.uqam.ca/ )
> > and it will soon be registering its institutional commitment in:
> >
> > http://www.eprints.org/openaccess/policysignup/
> > http://www.eprints.org/openaccess/policysignup/sign.php
> > http://www.unites.uqam.ca/cnc/declaration.fr.html
> >
> > The rest of laggard North America is encouraged to hurry and follow
> > suit: Europe is so far way ahead on this!
> >
> > Stevan Harnad
> >[...]
Received on Wed Apr 05 2006 - 21:02:51 BST