[GOAL] New CIHR Open Access Mandate Still Needs a Tweak

[Stevan Harnad]

The updated Canada Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Open Access
Mandate<http://www.cihr-irsc.gc.ca/e/32005.html> has
taken one step forward and one step back:

*One step forward:*

*Grant recipients are required to make every effort to ensure that their
peer-reviewed publications are freely accessible through the Publisher's
website (Option #1) or an online repository (Option #2)*

*One step back:*

*as soon as possible and in any event within six 12*  *months of
publication. Under the second option, grant recipients must archive the
final peer-reviewed full-text manuscripts immediately upon publication in a
digital archive…*

But there is a simple way to fix and optimize it.

The archiving must always be done *by the author, not the publisher* (and
preferably *in the author's institutional repository, never the publisher's
website*, so the institution can verify timely compliance); and the deposit
must be done *immediately upon publication in every instance*. (The length
of the allowable embargo is less important than the necessity of immediate
institutional deposit by the author. PMC Canada and others can then harvest
automatically from the author's institutional repositories.)

*RECOMMENDED TWEAK TO OPTIMIZE CIHR OA MANDATE:

Grant recipients are required to archive the final peer-reviewed full-text
manuscripts of their publications in their institutional repository
immediately upon publication and must ensure that they are freely
accessible within [X] months of publication*.


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Integrating Institutional and Funder Open Access Mandates: Belgian
Model<http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/864-.html>

How to Integrate University and Funder Open Access Mandates
<http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/369-guid.html>

Optimize the NIH Mandate Now: Deposit Institutionally, Harvest
Centrally<http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/344-guid.html>

Optimizing OA Self-Archiving Mandates: What? Where? When? Why?
How?<http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/136-guid.html>

Which Green OA Mandate Is Optimal?
<http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/494-guid.html>
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