Re: Berlin-3 Open Access Conference, Southampton, Feb 28 - Mar 12005

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

On Fri, 11 Feb 2005, Sally Morris (ALPSP) wrote:

> Institutional policies may be one step closer to Stevan's desired goal,
> but they are still not 'implementation' - that's when people actually do
> it!

    "69% of NOA authors [authors who have not yet made their work Open
    Access] would willingly deposit their articles in an open repository
    if required to do so (by their employer or funder): a further 8% would
    do so but not willingly, and only 3% would not be prepared to do so."

    Swan, A. & Brown, S. (2004) Authors and open access publishing.
    Learned Publishing 17: 219-224
http://www.keyperspectives.co.uk/OpenAccessArchive/Authors_and_open_access_publishing.pdf

A more recent author survey by Swan & Brown, likewise international, finds
that the percentage of authors who report they would self-archive
willingly if it were mandated by their employer or funder has since risen
from 69% to 79%.

The finding has been corroborated by C. Hajjem in Quebec, who found that
whereas only a minority of authors currently self-archive, 75% say that an
official institutional self-archiving policy is needed.
http://www.crsc.uqam.ca/lab/chawki/Auto-archivaeuqam.pdf

A recent survey in South Africa likewise recommends a National Information
Policy to

    "require that scholars make their research available via an Open
    Access mode of scholarly communication."

    De Beer, J. (2005) Open Access scholarly communication in South
    Africa : a role for National Information Policy in the National
    System of Innovation. Master's Thesis in Information Science at
    Stellenbosch University
    http://eprints.rclis.org/archive/00003110/

In other words, the natural extension of "Publish or Perish" in the Online
Age is: "...and Self-Archive to Flourish."

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Stevan Harnad