title: How and Why To Free All Refereed Research From Access- and Impact-Barriers Online, Now
creator: Harnad, Stevan
subject: Archives
description: Researchers publish their findings in order to make an impact on research, not in order to sell their words. Access-tolls are barriers to      research impact. Authors can now free their refereed research papers from all access tolls immediately by self-archiving them on-line in their own      institution's Eprint Archives. Free eprints.org software creates Archives compliant with the Open Archives Initiative metadata-tagging Protocol OAI 1.0.      These distributed institutional Archives are interoperable and can hence be harvested into global "virtual" archives, citation-linked and freely navigable by      all. Self-archiving should enhance research productivity and impact as well as providing powerful new ways of monitoring and measuring it.
date: 2001-06
type: Newspaper/Magazine Article
type: NonPeerReviewed
format: text/html
identifier: http://cogprints.org/1640/1/science.htm
identifier:   Harnad, Stevan  (2001) How and Why To Free All Refereed Research From Access- and Impact-Barriers Online, Now.  [Newspaper/Magazine Article]     
relation: http://cogprints.org/1640/