[OAI-eprints] Dramatic progress in the adoption of OA self-archiving mandates

[Stevan Harnad]

    ** Apologies for Cross-Posting **

There has been dramatic progress in the adoption of Open Access
Self-Archiving Mandates lately.

ROARMAP (Registry of Open Access Repository Material Archiving Policies) 
    http://www.eprints.org/signup/fulllist.php
and
ROAR (Registry of Open Access Repositories)
    http://archives.eprints.org/
now list:

       497 institutional repositories registered to date
        29 institutional or funder self-archiving policies
        *10 self-archiving mandates
        **4 funder self-archiving mandates
    
    *AUSTRALIA Queensland U. Technology 
    *EUROPE CERN 
    FRANCE CNRS 
    FRANCE INRA 
    FRANCE INRIA 
    FRANCE Institut Jean Nicod 
    FRANCE Inst fr rech exploit mer 
    FRANCE U Lumiere Lyon 2 
    GERMANY Bielefeld U 
    GERMANY Humboldt U 
    GERMANY Inst Sci Net Oldenburg 
    GERMANY Potsdam U. 
    GERMANY U Bremen 
    GERMANY U Hamburg 
    *INDIA Nat Inst Tech Rourkela 
    NORWAY U Oslo 
    *PORTUGAL U Minho 
    SWEDEN Lund U 
    *SWITZERLAND U Zurich 
    UK CCLRC 
    UK U Southampton 
    **UK BBSRC 
    **UK ESRC 
    **UK MRC 
    *UK U Southampton ECS 
    **UK Wellcome Trust 
    USA Case Western 
    USA NIH 
    USA U Kansas 

If your university or research institutions or research funding agency
has an Open Access Self-Archiving policy, 
please register it in ROARMAP:
    http://www.eprints.org/openaccess/policysignup/sign.php
and register your institutional repository (IR) in ROAR:
    http://archives.eprints.org/?action=add

You can track the growth of the number and nature of OA policies in
ROARMAP and the growth in the number and size of IRs in ROAR.

Stevan Harnad

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UNIVERSITIES: If you have adopted or plan to adopt an institutional
policy of providing Open Access to your own research article output,
please describe your policy at:
        http://www.eprints.org/signup/sign.php

UNIFIED DUAL OPEN-ACCESS-PROVISION POLICY:
    BOAI-1 ("green"): Publish your article in a suitable toll-access journal
            http://romeo.eprints.org/
OR
    BOAI-2 ("gold"): Publish your article in a open-access journal if/when 
            a suitable one exists.
            http://www.doaj.org/
AND  
    in BOTH cases self-archive a supplementary version of your article
            in your institutional repository.
            http://www.eprints.org/self-faq/
            http://archives.eprints.org/
            http://openaccess.eprints.org/