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Re: Call to Register Universities' Open Access Mandates in ROARMAP

From: (wrong string) �don <jean.claude.guedon_at_umontreal.ca>
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2009 09:13:46 -0400

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If "ROAR is 'the' registry of Open Access Repositories", what is
OpenDOAR? is it the "other" registry? :-)

Jean-Claude Gu�don


Le jeudi 23 juillet 2009 � 07:48 -0400, Stevan Harnad a �crit :

 ROAR�is the Registry of Open Access Repositories
http://archives.eprints.org/eprints.php?action=browse

ROARMAP�is the Registry of Open Access Repository Material Archiving
Policies�http://www.eprints.org/signup/fulllist.php

The purpose of ROARMAP is to register and record the open-access
policies of those institutions and funders who are putting the
principle�of Open Access (as expressed by the�Budapest Open Access
Initiative�and theBerlin Declaration) into�practice�as recommended by
Berlin 3�(as well as the�UK Government Science and Technology
Committee).�http://www.eprints.org/berlin3/outcomes.html
http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200304/cmselect/cmsctech/399/39903.htm

Universities, research institutions and research funders:

If you have adopted a mandate to provide open access to your own
peer-reviewed research output you are invited to�click here to
register�and describe your mandate in ROARMAP.
http://www.eprints.org/openaccess/policysignup/sign.php#fr

(For suggestions about the form of policy to adopt, see�here.)
http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/494-guid.html

Registering your OA mandate in ROARMAP will:

(1) record your own institution's commitment to providing open access
to its own research output,

(2) help the research community measure its progress (see�growth
curve, provided by Alma Swan in�Oasis) in providing open access
worldwide, http://www.openoasis.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=144&Itemid=338

and

(3) encourage further institutions to adopt open-access mandates (so
that your own institution's users can have access to the research
output of other institutions as well).

Sample�Institutional Self-Archiving Mandate
http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/71-guid.html

"For the purposes of institutional record-keeping, research asset
management, and performance-evaluation, and in order to maximize the
visibility, accessibility,�usage and impact�of our institution's
research output, our institution's researchers are henceforth to
deposit the final, peer-reviewed, accepted drafts of all their journal
articles (and accepted theses) into our institution's�institutional
repository�immediately upon acceptance for publication."

To register and describe your mandate, please click here:
http://www.eprints.org/openaccess/policysignup/sign.php#fr

Jean-Claude Gu�don
Universit� de Montr�al

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