> is "institutional repository" in this press release a
> complete misnomer? OpenSky will be a multi-institution, *disciplinary*
> repository, not so? Unless they are planning selective OAI-PMH
> harvesting from IRs, which isn't how I read the release.
The relevant distinction is institutional vs central repository,
because that is the one that is relevant to the all-important question
of whether funders should mandate convergent deposit (in fundees' own
institutional repositories [IRs], reinforcing their own institutional
deposit mandates) or divergent deposit (in a central repository,
competing with the fundee's own institutional deposit mandate).
Central repositories (mandated ones) should harvest from their
fundees' IRs, or accept automatic SWORD-like automatic exports rather
than insisting -- needlessly and counterproductively -- on direct
central deposit.
"Disciplinary" repository is a red herring. Whether a repository is
unidisciplinary or multidisciplinary is irrelevant. (An institutional
departmental repository would still be an IR, ecen though it was
disicplinary; and all the items in PubMed Central are certainly not
unidisciplinary.)
The only relevant variable is the locus of the direct deposit:
institutional or off-site. (And even that is only relevant for
mandated funder repositories.)
Unless I misunderstand, NCAR is an institution, not a funder. It has
its own researchers and its own repository, and that repository
happens to be (somewhat) unidisciplinary, because NCAR is (somewhat)
unidisciplinary.
The relevant question is whether NCAR's researchers are indeed
institutional, or distributed across many other institutions, for then
there would indeed arise the very same sort of locus-of-deposit
conflict that arises with funder mandates, with local institutional
researchers put off from depositing because of the prospect of having
to double-deposit, or deposit in different places for different
funders.
(A clarification from NCAR would help: If NCAR's researchers are
distributed across other institutions, then NCAR should stipulate that
harvest/import is OK as a means of complying with the NCAR mandate,
rather than implying researchers distributed at other institutions
will need to do a direct deposit in over and above their own
institutional deposit.)
How To Integrate University and Funder Open Access Mandates
http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/369-guid.html
Stevan Harnad
> On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 10:33 AM, Peter Suber <peters_at_earlham.edu> wrote:
>> [Forwarding from the US National Center for Atmospheric Research. --Peter
>> Suber.]
>>
>>
>> New Open Access Policy for NCAR Research
>>
>> Boulder, Colorado - The National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) has
>> passed an Open Access policy that
>> requires that all peer-reviewed research published by its scientists and
>> staff in scientific journals be made publicly available online through its
>> institutional repository. The new policy has been put in place by the
>> University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR), the governing body
>> that manages NCAR. A national lab, NCAR is sponsored by the National Science
>> Foundation. It has conducted research into the atmospheric sciences since
>> 1960.
>>
>> UCAR last month formalized the new policy and is developing an institutional
>> repository known as OpenSky, which will include all published studies by
>> NCAR and UCAR researchers in scientific journals. The repository will be
>> free and available to the public, but access to the works it contains will
>> depend upon the policies of their publishers. In support of copyright law
>> and the health of the publishers that support NCAR and UCAR science, all
>> publishing agreements will be honored. OpenSky will be managed by the NCAR
>> Library and is expected to go live in 2010.
>>
>> "This updated policy will support broader access to the cutting-edge
>> research conducted at NCAR, covering climate, weather, air quality, and
>> other areas vital to society and the environment," says Mary Marlino, the
>> Director of the NCAR Library. "It is especially timely because it comes at a
>> critical time for atmospheric science research. I can think of no better way
>> to celebrate the 50th anniversary of NCAR than to formalize our longstanding
>> commitment to open science, open access, and open data." Marlino adds, "The
>> policy that we have developed respects the policies that publishers
>> self-set, and it is our intention to continue to honor publisher policy,
>> while at the same time, to monitor developments in this fast evolving
>> arena."
>>
>> UCAR is a nonprofit corporation formed in 1959 by research institutions with
>> doctoral programs in the atmospheric and related sciences. UCAR was formed
>> to enhance the computing and observational capabilities of the universities
>> and to focus on scientific problems that are beyond the scale of a single
>> university. NCAR supports the UCAR mission by providing the university
>> science and teaching community with the tools, facilities, and support
>> required to perform innovative research.
>>
>> For more information, visit http://opensky.library.ucar.edu/policy, or
>> contact Jamaica Jones, jamaica_at_ucar.edu.
>>
>> The University Corporation for Atmospheric Research manages the National
>> Center for Atmospheric Research under sponsorship by the National Science
>> Foundation. Any opinions, findings and conclusions, or recommendations
>> expressed in this publication are those of the author(s) and do not
>> necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.
>>
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