The US Senate has now passed the NIH Green OA Mandate by a big
majority:
https://mx2.arl.org/Lists/SPARC-OAForum/Message/4024.html
There is no need for US Universities to keep waiting now
(to see whether it is implemented, or vetoed by President Bush).
http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/119-guid.html
Universities can already go ahead, knowing they have the blessing
of both Houses of Congress, and adopt Green OA Mandates for their own
institutional research output, deposited in their own Institutional
Repositories -- and not just for the NIH-funded biomedical research,
but for all their research output (along the lines of the US
Federal Research Public Access Act [FRPAA], which is also soon to be
revived).
http://www.eprints.org/openaccess/policysignup/sign.php
And so can research funders (including the NIH!).
The handwriting is on the wall, and it is Green. And meanwhile, daily,
weekly, monthly research access and impact are still being lost, needlessly,
and cumulatively, at the expense of research productivity and progress for
us all.
Stevan Harnad
AMERICAN SCIENTIST OPEN ACCESS FORUM:
http://amsci-forum.amsci.org/archives/American-Scientist-Open-Access-Forum.h
tml
http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/
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 Wed Oct 24 2007 - 21:44:03 BST