Pertinent Prior AmSci Topic Threads:
"What Provosts Need to Mandate" (Dec 2003)
http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/3240.html
"Written evidence for UK Select Committee's Inquiry into Scientific
Publications" (Dec 2003)
http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/3263.html
"University policy mandating self-archiving
of research output" (Jan 2004)
http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/3438.html
"Mandating OA around the corner?" (Jul 2004)
http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/3829.html
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Serials: The Journal for the Serials Community
Volume 18, Number 1, 30 - 34 / March 2005
http://www.uksg.org/
A mandate to self archive?
The role of open access institutional repositories
Stephen Pinfield
Information Services Hallward Library, University Park,
University of Nottingham Nottingham NG7 2RD UK +44?(0)?115?951?5109
Stephen.Pinfield_at_Nottingham.ac.uk
http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/~uazsjp/
Abstract:
Based on a paper presented at the UKSG seminar 'Scientific
Publications: Free for all?', The Geological Society, London,
Tuesday 23 November 2004
This paper argues that the best way to achieve major improvements
in scholarly communication in the short and medium term is to make
it mandatory to deposit research papers in open access institutional
repositories. This is what the House of Commons Science and Technology
Committee report of 20041 on scientific publishing recommended. The
paper defines what open access repositories are and explains why
they should be institutional. It also deals with the question of
what should be deposited in institutional repositories and why these
improve scholarly communication. It then deals with the issue of
mandating deposition: why deposition should be mandatory, who should
mandate deposition and who should carry out deposition. The paper
concludes with an analysis of the wider implications of mandating
deposition in institutional repositories and a summary of the existing
situation in the UK and elsewhere. It discusses the Select Committee
report and the UK Government response in relation to institutional
repositories.
Received on Sat Mar 12 2005 - 00:24:20 GMT