Re: Authors and OA (RE: Mandating OA around the corner)

[Stevan Harnad <harnad@ecs.soton.ac.uk>]

The only important tag a paper self-archived in an institutional OA
archive needs is the name of the journal that accepted it. Institutional
self-archiving is not a substitute for publishing in a peer-reviewed
journal but a means of providing OA to the article.

Stevan Harnad

On Fri, 16 Jul 2004, Brian Simboli wrote:

> Couldn't there be a credentialling body for a specific subject that would
> give the "seal of approval" for selected articles in institutional
> archives? So an article in an institutional repository could be labelled
> "this article has received the xyz seal of approval", where xyz is say a
> society committee, or an editorial board along traditional lines. The
> institutional repositories could be centralized for long-standing and
> stable consortia, such that faculty at member institutions in that
> consortium could submit articles to the centralized repository. 

[SNIP]

> Brian Simboli
> Lehigh University