Re: Forthcoming OA Developments in France

From: Stevan Harnad <harnad_at_ecs.soton.ac.uk>
Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2006 21:55:58 +0000

See hyperlinked version:
http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/172-guid.html

  From Peter Suber's Open Access News
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2006_11_19_fosblogarchive.html#116440068846537562

    Presentation on HAL and OA archiving in France

    Franck Laloë, Les archives ouvertes (AO) et la communication
    scientifique directe (CSD), a presentation at the CNRS meeting
    Réunion sur les archives ouvertes (Paris, November 16, 2006).
    (Thanks to the INIST Libre Accès blog.)

http://www.dr2.cnrs.fr/laboratoires/actu/Evenements/Reunion_HAL/stock/DR-Paris-B.pdf
http://www.dr2.cnrs.fr/Newsletter/Lettre_61/lettre_61_stock/note_06_217.pdf
http://www.inist.fr/openaccess/

Bravo to France and to Franck Laloe! As noted before in the AmSci Forum,
it just might be that France -- an exception among western nations in this
regard -- is a sufficiently centralised country to be able to manage 100%
self-archiving of its research output of 120,000 articles per year in a
centralised national archive (HAL) instead of a distributed network of
Institutional Repositories (IRs).
http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/11000/

But what is unlikely is that France is so much of an exception that it
will be able to do it without a national self-archiving mandate. (See
HAL's growth rate in Franck's presentation and draw your own conclusion
about whether and when 100 OA is likely to be reached without a
mandate.)

The advantage of such centralisation, however, is that one national
mandate will be enough.

Here are some sentimental flashbacks:

Pertinent Prior AmSci Topic Threads:

    Are things otherwise in France? (began May, 1999)
http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/subject.html#268

    INIST/CNRS : nouveautés du site Libre Accès (Dec 2004)
http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/subject.html#4253

    France's INRIA Registers Commitment to Implement Berlin
    Declaration Self-Archiving Policy Recommendation (Mar 2005)
http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/4475.html

    France's CNRS Registers Commitment to Implement Berlin Declaration
    Self-Archiving Policy Recommendation (May 2005)
http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/subject.html#4447

    Helene Bosc et le progres en acces libre en france (Mar 2006)
http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/subject.html#5244

    CNRS position on OA : new details (Jun 2006)
http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/subject.html#5422

    Forthcoming OA Developments in France (Jun 2006)
http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/subject.html#5434

    France's HAL, OAI interoperability, and Central vs Institutional
    Repositories (Oct 2006)
http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/subject.html#5679

Stevan Harnad
Received on Fri Nov 24 2006 - 23:55:07 GMT

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