[BOAI] Fwd: The ROARMAP database of Open Access policies

[Stevan Harnad]

Begin forwarded message:

> From: Alma Swan <a.swan -- TALK21.COM>
> Date: June 4, 2009 7:25:32 AM EDT (CA)
> To: AMERICAN-SCIENTIST-OPEN-ACCESS-FORUM at LISTSERVER.SIGMAXI.ORG
> Subject: The ROARMAP database of Open Access policies
> Reply-To: American Scientist Open Access Forum <AMERICAN-SCIENTIST-OPEN-ACCESS-FORUM at LISTSERVER.SIGMAXI.ORG 
> >
>
> UCL's Open Access mandate was adopted in October 2008, but only  
> announced in June 2009. It would be helpful if all universities that  
> adopt mandatory policies on Open Access would register them  
> immediately upon adoption in the ROARMAP database (http://www.eprints.org/openaccess/policysignup/ 
> ).
>
> Being able to see the details of existing policies helps other  
> institutions that are developing their own and means that new  
> policies are included in summary data like this chart (http://www.nature.com/news/2009/090603/full/news.2009.538/box/1.html 
>  ) at the soonest possible moment.
>
> Alma Swan
> Key Perspectives Ltd
> Truro, UK
>
>
> On 03/06/2009 13:28, "Stevan Harnad" <amsciforum -- GMAIL.COM> wrote:
>
>> The United Kingdom continues to lead the world in Open Access:
>>
>> University College London (UCL) <http://www.ucl.ac.uk/>  has just  
>> adopted the UK's 22nd (and the world's 84th <http://www.eprints.org/openaccess/policysignup/fullinfo.php?inst=University%20College%20London%20%28UCL%29 
>> > ) mandate to make all of its research output Open Access (by  
>> depositing it in UCL's Institutional Repository, UCL Eprints <http://eprints.ucl.ac.uk/ 
>> > ).
>>
>> With its 13 funder mandates and 9 institutional/departmental  
>> mandates <http://www.eprints.org/openaccess/policysignup/>  so far,  
>> the UK still has the planet's highest proportion of Open Access  
>> Mandates.
>>
>> But the world is catching up (see Figure <http://users.ecs.soton.ac.uk/harnad/Temp/alma-mand1.png 
>> > )!
>>
>> Dr. Alma Swan of Key Perspectives <http://www.keyperspectives.co.uk/ 
>> >  and University of Southampton, has just documented how mandates <http://www.eprints.org/openaccess/policysignup/ 
>> >  to provide Open Access to research output have almost doubled  
>> globally in the year that has elapsed since Harvard University's  
>> Faculty of Arts and Sciences adopted the world’s 44th Open Access  
>> mandate <http://www.eprints.org/openaccess/policysignup/fullinfo.php?inst=Harvard%20University%3A%20Faculty%20of%20Arts%20and%20Sciences 
>> >  in May 2008.
>>
>> The world's first Open Access mandate <http://www.eprints.org/openaccess/policysignup/fullinfo.php?inst=University%20of%20Southampton%3A%20School%20of%20Electronics%20and%20Computer%20Science 
>> >  was adopted in 2002 by the University of Southampton's School of  
>> Electronics and Computer Science (ECS). Southampton had previously  
>> designed, in 2000 <http://www.dlib.org/dlib/october00/10inbrief.html#HARNAD 
>> > , the first free, Open Source software for creating Open Access  
>> Institutional Repositories, Eprints <http://www.eprints.org/> , now  
>> used the world over <http://roar.eprints.org/?action=home&q=&country=&version=eprints2&type=&order=name&submit=Filter 
>> > .
>>
>> In 2004 the UK Parliamentary Select Committee on Science and  
>> Technology (as urged by evidence <http://users.ecs.soton.ac.uk/harnad/Temp/UKSTC.htm 
>> >  provided by Southampton University and Loughborough University)  
>> recommended <http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200304/cmselect/cmsctech/399/39903.htm 
>> >  “that all UK higher education institutions establish  
>> institutional repositories on which their published output can be  
>> stored and from which it can be read, free of charge, online [and]  
>> that Research Councils and other Government funders mandate their  
>> funded researchers to deposit a copy of all of their articles in  
>> this way.” Research Councils UK <http://www.rcuk.ac.uk/research/outputs/access/default.htm 
>> >  went on in 2006-2008  to make a clean sweep, with all seven  
>> councils mandating Open Access in 2006-2008.
>>
>> But Alma Swan's analysis shows that the UK is at last going to lose  
>> its lead, as the global growth spurt of mandates we had all been  
>> awaiting appears to have begun.
>>
>> The globalization of Open Access mandates is of course something  
>> that all UK universities heartily welcome as a win/win outcome,  
>> optimal and inevitable for research and researchers worldwide. Open  
>> access is essentially reciprocal. The only way every university on  
>> the planet can gain open access to the research output of every  
>> other university on the planet is by each providing open access to  
>> its own research output: "Self-archive unto others as you would  
>> have them self-archive unto you <http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&num=100&q=%28%22self-archive+unto+others%22++OR++%22golden+rule%22%29+%22open+access%22+harnad&btnG=Search&aq=f&oq=&aqi= 
>> > .”
>>

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