[OAI-eprints] Re: DASER II Summit: Institutional Repositories and
Open Occess
Stevan Harnad
harnad at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Mon Nov 14 15:12:35 EST 2005
On Mon, 14 Nov 2005, H.M. Gladney wrote:
> Who knows what the best repository alternative is for those of us
> (un)fortunate enough not to belong to any large institution?
Plenty of central archives (like Arxiv and CogPrints), and many
institutional archives will allow unaffiliated scholars to deposit too,
in a long tradition of academic hospicing.
Chrs, Stevan
>
> Best wishes, Henry
>
> H.M. Gladney ,hgladney at pacbell.net>
>
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> 1. DASER II Summit: Institutional Repositories and Open Access
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> From: Stevan Harnad <harnad at ecs.soton.ac.uk>
> Subject: [OAI-eprints] DASER II Summit: Institutional Repositories and
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> ** Apologies for multiple posting **
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> DASER-2's theme is:
> Open Access and Institutional Repositories
> http://www.daser.org/program.html
> University of Maryland, College Park MD
> 2-4 December 2005
>
> Below is the summary of my own presentation:
>
> Institutional Repository (IR) Models:
> What Works (for Open Access, OA) and What Doesn't
>
> Stevan Harnad
> Canada Research Chair
> Universiti de Quibec ` Montrial
> and
> University of Southampton, UK
>
> SUMMARY: Born under the influence of the Open Access (OA) movement,
> Institutional Repositories (IRs) for digital content are now all
> the rage; but whether or not they work depends on their raison
> d'etre. There are many things one can do with an IR. One can use
> it for content management, preservation, internal data-sharing,
> record-keeping; the content itself can be anything digital, whether
> courseware, "gray literature," multimedia, in-house publishing, or
> even bought-in 3rd-party content. None of this has anything whatsoever
> to do with OA, however. OA is about maximizing accessibility to
> institutional peer-reviewed research output in order to maximize its
> research impact (25%-250% of it lost if non-OA), thereby maximizing
> institutional research productivity and progress (and prestige and
> research revenue). OA content in IRs is so far very low (averaging
> less than 15% of annual research output) -- partly because OA has
> been eclipsed by the many other items on the IR wish-list, partly
> because even where it is the only item, wishing is not enough:
> not if librarians wish it, not even if researchers wish it. The
> two international UK JISC surveys have shown clearly exactly what
> is needed to fill IRs with their annual OA content: An extension of
> institutions' and research funders' "publish or perish" mandate to:
> "publish but also self-archive in your IR". The 5 institutions that
> so far have such a mandate (CERN, U. Southampton ECS, U. Minho,
> Queensland U. Tech, and U. Zurich) are well on their way to 100%
> OA. After a crashing failure by NIH to mandate immediate OA
> self-archiving, and a halting half-step by the Wellcome Trust
> (6-month embargo), Research Councils UK (RCUK) looks poised to do
> the right thing at last, and once it does, the rest of the world's
> research funders and institutions will follow suit. The race is
> now to the swift, the battle to the strong, for the 25%-250% OA
> impact advantage is partly a competitive advantage.
>
> JISC Surveys: http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/11005/
> OA Impact Advantage:
> http://www.crsc.uqam.ca/lab/chawki/graphes/EtudeImpact.htm
> Institutional Policies: http://www.eprints.org/openaccess/policysignup/
> Institutional Archives: http://archives.eprints.org/ (offline because of
> fire) RCUK Policy Proposal: http://www.rcuk.ac.uk/access/index.asp
> Prior AmSci Threads:
> "EPrints, DSpace or ESpace?" (started Feb 2003)
> http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/2671.html
> http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/2838.html
> http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/2855.html
> http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/3211.html
> http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/3598.html
> http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/4516.html
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> Stevan Harnad
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