(THANKS TO PETER SUBER'S OPEN ACCESS NEWS.) NOTE THAT THE HARVARD
PROPOSAL IS TO DEPOSIT INSTITUTIONALLY AND EXPORT CENTRALLY. BRAVO!
HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL (US*PROPOSED-INSTITUTIONAL-MANDATE)
http://hms.harvard.edu/hms/home.asp
Institution's/Department's OA Eprint Archives
[growth data]
http://repository.countway.harvard.edu/xmlui/handle/cr1782/137
Institution's/Department's OA Self-Archiving Policy
http://focus.hms.harvard.edu/2009/030609/publishing.shtml
...Many [NIH-funded] scientists are still learning what it takes to
comply with the NIH public access policy... Some researchers also
wonder how they can make their work publicly accessible even if it is
not funded by the NIH.
These issues could be solved by a new open-access policy under
discussion in the Harvard medical community. A team at the Countway
Library [at Harvard Medical School] has developed a two-pronged
strategy to help scientists smoothly manage the latest changes in
scholarly publishing and further expand the open-access model at
Harvard.
A longer-term solution is an HMS-wide open-access policy and
repository to streamline NIH-funded article deposits and to showcase
the range of scholarly contributions by medical, public health and
dental faculties...
A voluntary online repository called HMScholar already exists at the
Countway website....
Under an open-access policy, the system would automatically make the
NIH-required submissions to PubMed Central and enable the University
to track NIH compliance better.
The policy would be similar to those adopted last February by the
Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences and in June by the Harvard Law
School. The online collection would be integrated with the new
University-wide open-access institutional repository DASH (Digital
Access to Scholarship at Harvard) in Cambridge, said Amy Brand at the
Harvard Office for Scholarly Communication. Plans call for DASH to
use the Countway mechanism for deposits to PubMed Central....
Received on Sat Mar 07 2009 - 01:50:15 GMT