Re: Stimulating the Population of European Repositories

From: Stevan Harnad <harnad_at_ecs.soton.ac.uk>
Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 17:55:28 +0000

On Wed, 23 Jan 2008, Stephanie Meece wrote:

> Thank you for posting this information about the need for mandates. But I
> am
> wondering about the emphasis on mandating deposit. It seems that in our
> enthusiasm for securing a mandate at our institutions we neglect the other
> half of these policies; i.e., how is compliance to be monitored, and most
> importantly, how enforced? It would be useful if other institutions with
> mandates could share their solutions to these issues.

Green OA self-archiving mandates are the necessary condition for filling
IRs with OA's target content.
http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/71-guid.html

Without mandates IRs remain largely empty, as Arthur Sale's studies
have shown.
http://eprints.utas.edu.au/view/authors/Sale,_Arthur.html

With mandates one also needs monitoring mechanisms and benefits for
compliance:

The very best combination of both monitoring mechanisms and benefits is
to designate the IR as the sole locus of deposit for any peer-reviewed
publications to be considered for performance assessment (either
institutional or national, like the RAE). (Deposit, or your work
will be invisible for performance assessment.)

The IR should also provide metrics as feedback to the author as well as
data to be harvested for performance assessment. This includes usage
metrics such as those we have implemented for EPrints IRs
http://stats.eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/cgi-bin/irstats.cgi?
and the associated citation metrics from Citebase
http://citebase.eprints.org/
and, using publish-or-perish plug-ins, from Google Scholar and Google
Books:
http://www.harzing.com/resources.htm#/pop.htm

Netherlands DARE has also provided "Cream of Science" as an incentive
http://www.darenet.nl/en/page/language.view/keur.page
and Minho University reinforced its mandate in the first 1-2 years with
small financial incentives (not necessary, but can help speed
compliance).
https://repositorium.sdum.uminho.pt/handle/1822/6177

The findings on the effects of OA self-archiving on research impact
should also be given prominence, as incentives:
http://opcit.eprints.org/oacitation-biblio.html

Stevan Harnad
AMERICAN SCIENTIST OPEN ACCESS FORUM:
http://amsci-forum.amsci.org/archives/American-Scientist-Open-Access-Forum.h
tml
       http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/

UNIVERSITIES and RESEARCH FUNDERS:
If you have adopted or plan to adopt a policy of providing Open Access
to your own research article output, please describe your policy at:
       http://www.eprints.org/signup/sign.php
       http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/71-guid.html
       http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/136-guid.html

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 an 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 own institutional repository.
       http://www.eprints.org/self-faq/
       http://archives.eprints.org/
       http://openaccess.eprints.org/
Received on Wed Jan 23 2008 - 19:17:45 GMT

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