[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   
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> H.M. Gladney  ,hgladney at pacbell.net>
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>    1. DASER II Summit: Institutional Repositories and Open	Access
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> Subject: [OAI-eprints] DASER II Summit: Institutional Repositories and
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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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