On Mon, 9 Jun 2008, Beth Tillinghast wrote:
> Can you and others on this list speak to the issue of an institutional
> mandate for researchers to deposit their output in the insitution's own
> IR. I know some institutions are taking this position, but I have also
> read a number of articles advising against this approach.
Please see the links I attached to my post, below.
See also:
http://www.eprints.org/openaccess/policysignup/
http://users.ecs.soton.ac.uk/harnad/Temp/UKSTC.htm
http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/71-guid.html
http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/136-guid.html
and:
Harnad, S., Carr, L., Brody, T. & Oppenheim, C. (2003) Mandated online
RAE CVs Linked to University Eprint Archives: Improving the UK
Research Assessment Exercise whilst making it cheaper
and easier. Ariadne 35.
http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Temp/Ariadne-RAE.htm
Harnad, S. (2006) Maximizing Research Impact Through Institutional and
National Open-Access Self-Archiving Mandates. In Proceedings of
CRIS2006. Current Research Information Systems: Open Access
Institutional Repositories. Bergen, Norway. Jeffrey, K., Eds.
http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/12093/
Harnad, S. (2006) Self-archiving should be mandatory. Research
Information.
http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/12738/
Stevan Harnad
AMERICAN SCIENTIST OPEN ACCESS FORUM:
http://amsci-forum.amsci.org/archives/American-Scientist-Open-Access-Forum.html
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/
> At 12:20 PM 6/7/2008, Stevan Harnad wrote:
>>
>> Beth Tillinghast wrote on the DSpace list:
>>
>> > I have just run into my first case where I am finding our IR in
>> > competition with a Subject Repository...
>> > I am wondering if others have run into this dilemma and can provide
>> > me with many good reasons why submission should take place in and
>> > institutional repository rather than a subject repository?
>>
>> The dilemma has a simple, optimal and universal solution:
>>
>> Direct deposit should be in the IR. SRs and CRs can harvest from IRs.
>>
>> That's what the OAI protocol is for. Institutions are the research
>> providers. They are the ones with the direct stake in the record-keeping
>> and showcasing of their own research output, and in maximizing its
>> accessibility, visibility, usage and impact. Institutions are also in
>> the position to mandate that their own research output be deposited in
>> their own IR; funder mandates can reinforce that, and can benefit from
>> institutional monitoring and oversight (as long as they too mandate
>> institutional deposit and central harvesting, rather than direct central
>> deposit).
>>
>> Convergent institutional self-archiving makes sound sense and scales
>> systematically to cover all of research output space, whereas divergent
>> self-archiving, willy-nilly in SRs and CRs is arbitrary and simply
>> produces confusion, conflict, and frustration in researchers, if they
>> need to deposit multiply.
>>
>> (Before you reply to sing the praises of SRs and CRs, recall that their
>> virtues are identical if they are harvested rather than the loci of
>> direct deposit. The overwhelming benefit of IR deposit is that that is
>> the way to ensure that all research output is universally self-archived.)
>>
>> THE FEEDER AND THE DRIVER: Deposit Institutionally, Harvest Centrally
>> http://users.ecs.soton.ac.uk/harnad/Temp/Harnad-driverstate2.html
>>
>> How To Integrate University and Funder Open Access Mandates
>> http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/369-guid.html
>>
>> Optimize the NIH Mandate Now: Deposit Institutionally, Harvest Centrally
>> http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/344-guid.html
>>
>> Stevan Harnad
Received on Mon Jun 09 2008 - 23:53:55 BST