Is Harvard Edging Toward a Green OA Self-Archiving Mandate?

From: Stevan Harnad <harnad_at_ecs.soton.ac.uk>
Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2007 17:44:50 +0100

Is Harvard University Edging Toward a Green OA Self-Archiving Mandate?
Have a look at the proposed policy and judge for yourselves:

In Peter Suber's Open Access News:
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2007/09/harvard-faculty-council-recommend
s-oa.html

In Harvard Crimson:
http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=519705

In any case, I've now listed it in ROARMAP as a University
OA Policy Proposal:
http://www.eprints.org/signup/fulllist.php

Kudos are in order for Harvard's Professor Stuart Shieber.
http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~shieber/

Stevan Harnad
AMERICAN SCIENTIST OPEN ACCESS FORUM:
http://amsci-forum.amsci.org/archives/American-Scientist-Open-Access-Forum.h
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UNIVERSITIES and RESEARCH FUNDERS:
If you have adopted or plan to adopt a policy of providing Open Access
to your own research article output, please describe your policy at:
    http://www.eprints.org/signup/sign.php
    http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/71-guid.html
    http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/136-guid.html

OPEN-ACCESS-PROVISION POLICY:
    BOAI-1 ("Green"): Publish your article in a suitable toll-access journal
    http://romeo.eprints.org/
OR
    BOAI-2 ("Gold"): Publish your article in an open-access journal if/when
    a suitable one exists.
    http://www.doaj.org/
AND
    in BOTH cases self-archive a supplementary version of your article
    in your own institutional repository.
    http://www.eprints.org/self-faq/
    http://archives.eprints.org/
    http://openaccess.eprints.org/
Received on Fri Sep 28 2007 - 18:36:43 BST