Harvard Medical School Proposes Harvard's 3rd Green OA Mandate

[Stevan Harnad <amsciforum@gmail.com>]

(Thanks to Peter Suber's Open Access News.) Note that the Harvard
proposal is to deposit institutionally and export centrally.
Bravo!

Harvard Medical School (US proposed-institutional-mandate)

http://hms.harvard.edu/hms/home.asp

Institution's/Department's OA Eprint Archives

[growth data]http://repository.countway.harvard.edu/xmlui/handle/cr1782/137

Institution's/Department's OA Self-Archiving Policy

http://focus.hms.harvard.edu/2009/030609/publishing.shtml

... Many [NIH-funded] scientists are still learning what it takes
to comply with the NIH public access policy... Some researchers
also wonder how they can make their work publicly accessible even
if it is not funded by the NIH.

These issues could be solved by a new open-access policy under
discussion in the Harvard medical community. A team at the
Countway Library [at Harvard Medical School] has developed a
two-pronged strategy to help scientists smoothly manage the
latest changes in scholarly publishing and further expand the
open-access model at Harvard.

A longer-term solution is an HMS-wide open-access policy and
repository to streamline NIH-funded article deposits and to
showcase the range of scholarly contributions by medical, public
health and dental faculties...

A voluntary online repository called HMScholar already exists at
the Countway website....

Under an open-access policy, the system would automatically make
the NIH-required submissions to PubMed Central and enable the
University to track NIH compliance better.

The policy would be similar to those adopted last February by the
Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences and in June by the Harvard
Law School. The online collection would be integrated with the
new University-wide open-access institutional repository DASH
(Digital Access to Scholarship at Harvard) in Cambridge, said Amy
Brand at the Harvard Office for Scholarly Communication. Plans
call for DASH to use the Countway mechanism for deposits to
PubMed Central....

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