Re: Self-archiving or third-party archiving? (RE: Authors and OA)

[J.F.Rowland@lboro.ac.uk]

I agree with Norbert.  Where an author is employed by (or a student at) a
University, most of the 'green' publishers accept that the use of that
University's Institutional Repository is 'self-archiving'.

Issues may arise for publishers, however, if a subject-based repository is
used (except in physics, where the physics specialist publishers are
comfortable with arXiv).  The question of authors unaffiliated with any
institution is under discussion; in the UK it has recently been suggested
that the British Library might provide an 'institutional repository' for
such authors.

Fytton Rowland, Loughborough University, UK.

Quoting Norbert Lossau <lossau@ub.uni-bielefeld.de>:

> Self-archiving in the narrow sense as described by Rick sounds to me
> like "private" archiving. But is there private archiving for "public"  
> researchers? Self-archiving of a researcher at the university means in
> fact archiving on a computer resource provided by the university (at
> least in Germany). And the research has also been funded with public
> grants (obviously there is private funding as well but let's keep this
> aside for a moment).
> 
> Thus why not interpreting institutional archiving as "self-archiving"?
> The concept behind self-archiving is to have full control over the
> content and this is certainly the case with all types of author and
> faculty/institutional archiving. How institutions implement this policy
> should be left to them. In Bielefeld we will continuously further
> develop the current institutional repository to a full eScholarship
> repository, hosted by the university library. This will not only
> guarantee the full control but also the use of standards (like OAI-PMH)
> and the library is willing to support this process actively. At our
> university the library is not regarded as third party (on the same level
> as a publisher) but as member of the same institution and as trusted
> repository.
> 
> Norbert Lossau