Re: What Provosts Need to Mandate

From: Stevan Harnad <harnad_at_ecs.soton.ac.uk>
Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2006 20:26:19 +0100

    PUTTING PRINCIPLED SUPPORT INTO PRACTICE:
    WHAT PROVOSTS NEED TO MANDATE FOR THEIR OWN UNIVERSITIES

Twenty-one more US university provosts
    http://www.gwla.org/provostletter.html
have now joined the first pride of 25 provosts
    http://www.cic.uiuc.edu/groups/CICMembers/archive/documents/FRPAAletterFinal7-24-06.pdf
to express their support for the Federal Research Public Access Act (FRPAA)
    http://cornyn.senate.gov/doc_archive/05-02-2006_COE06461_xml.pdf

But having now expressed their support for the US federal self-archiving
mandate, there is absolutely no need for the provosts to wait for the
Act's adoption to act! This would be an excellent time for each to put
their support into practice by adopting an institutional self-archiving
mandate of their own
    http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/71-guid.html
at their own institutions (and registering them in ROARMAP for other
institutions to emulate).
    http://www.eprints.org/signup/fulllist.php

See: http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/117-guid.html

Some Pertinent Prior AmSci Topic Threads:

    "Written evidence for UK Select Committee's Inquiry into Scientific
    Publications" (Dec 2003)
    http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/subject.html#3264

    "What Provosts Need to Mandate" (Dec 2003)
    http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/subject.html#3241

    "A Simple Way to Optimize the NIH Public Access Policy" (Oct 2004)
    http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/4092.html

    "Please Don't Copy-Cat Clone NIH-12 Non-OA Policy!" (Jan 2005)
    http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/4308.html

    "Maximising the Return on UK's Public Investment in Research"
    (Sep 2005)
    http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/subject.html#4755

    "Generic Rationale and Model for University Open Access
     Self-Archiving Mandate" (Mar 2006)
    http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/subject.html#5216

    "How to Counter All Opposition to the
    FRPAA Self-Archiving Mandate" (Sep 2006)
    http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/subject.html#5399

Stevan Harnad
http://amsci-forum.amsci.org/archives/American-Scientist-Open-Access-Forum.html

UNIVERSITIES: If you have adopted or plan to adopt an institutional
policy of providing Open Access to your own research article output,
please describe your policy at:
        http://www.eprints.org/signup/sign.php

UNIFIED DUAL 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 a 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 institutional repository.
            http://www.eprints.org/self-faq/
            http://archives.eprints.org/
            http://openaccess.eprints.org/
Received on Thu Aug 03 2006 - 21:58:55 BST