Putting Provost Principles into Practice: II

More US university provosts (22) have now joined the prior pride of provosts (25) to register their support for the Federal Research Public Access Act (FRPAA). But having now expressed their support for a federal self-archiving mandate, there is absolutely no need for the provosts to wait for the Act's adoption in order to act! This would be an excellent time for the provosts to put their principled support for the FRPAA into practice by each adopting an institutional self-archiving mandate of their own, at their own respective universities, and by registering and describing their mandates, for other universities to see and emulate, at ROARMAP.

Some Pertinent Prior AmSci Topic Threads:

"Chron. High. Ed. 18 September on Cal Tech & Copyright" (Sep 1998)
"Scholars' Forum: A New Model For Scholarly Communication" (Mar 1999)
"The Need To Re-Activate the Provosts' Initiative" (Feb 2001)
"Written evidence for UK Select Committee's Inquiry into Scientific Publications" (Dec 2003)
"What Provosts Need to Mandate" (Dec 2003)
"A Simple Way to Optimize the NIH Public Access Policy" (Oct 2004)
"Please Don't Copy-Cat Clone NIH-12 Non-OA Policy!" (Jan 2005)
"Maximising the Return on UK's Public Investment in Research" (Sep 2005)
"Generic Rationale and Model for University Open Access Self-Archiving Mandate" (Mar 2006)
"How to Counter All Opposition to the FRPAA Self-Archiving Mandate" (Sep 2006)

Stevan Harnad
American Scientist Open Access Forum