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Central versus institutional self-archiving

Harnad, S. (2006) Central versus institutional self-archiving. Technical Report , ECS, University of Southampton. (Unpublished)

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NIH's, PLoS's, the Wellcome Trust's and now the UK MRC's unreflective support for PubMed Central (PMC), a Central Repository (CR), as the locus for direct self-archiving by authors is very unfortunate for Institutional Repositories (IRs), for self-archiving, and for Open Access (OA) progress in general. Alma Swan has published key papers on both OA self-archiving policy and institutional versus central self-archiving (IRs vs. CRs) analysing the reasons.
(a) Institutional self-archiving and central self-archiving are at odds in the quest for a universal self-archiving policy solution that will cover all OA research output.
(b) It would be awkward and inefficient to have a different external cross-institution CR as the locus of primary deposit for every funding area, subject area, combination of subject areas, or nation.
(c) Researchers' own IRs are the most natural and efficient way to scale up to covering all of OA space from all disciplines, institutions and nations.
(d) Direct central self-archiving is already obsolete in the OAI era of interoperable OAI-compliant IRs.
(e) The optimal solution is for researchers to self-archive their own papers in their own OAI-compliant IRs and for CRs to be harvested from those distributed IRs.
(f) Universities are in the best position to mandate self-archiving and monitor and reward compliance.
(g) Mandating self-archiving in CRs instead simply creates an unsystematic and incoherent policy that does not scale up to covering all research output from all research institutions.
(h) What the NIH, Wellcome Trust and MRC should be mandating is not direct depositing in PMC, but universal depositing in the fundee's own IR, from which PMC can then harvest collections.

Item Type:Technical Report
Creator/Authors:
Stevan Harnad
Keywords:open access, self-archiving, research policy, research impact, citation, institutional repositories, central repositories
Research Group:Current ECS Groups > Web and Internet Science
Old ECS Groups > Intelligence, Agents, Multimedia
Alternative Locations:http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/...
Date:October 2006
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Last Modified:23 Sep 2011 10:34
Deposited On:28 Sep 2006 by Harnad, Stevan

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Harnad, S., Carr, L., Brody, T. & Oppenheim, C. (2003) Mandated online RAE CVs Linked to University Eprint Archives: Improving the UK Research Assessment Exercise whilst making it cheaper and easier. Ariadne 35 (April 2003).

http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue35/harnad/

Harnad, S. (2005) Making the case for web-based self-archiving. Research Money 19 (16).

http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/11534/

Harnad, S. (2005) Maximising the Return on UK's Public Investment in Research.

http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/11220/

http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/28-guid.html

Harnad, Stevan (2005) Australia Is Not Maximising the Return on its Research Investment. In Steele, Prof Colin, Eds. Proceedings National Scholarly Communications Forum 2005, Sydney, Australia.

http://eprints.comp.utas.edu.au:81/archive/00000204/

http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/41-guid.html

Harnad, S. (2006) Opening Access by Overcoming Zeno's Paralysis, in Jacobs, N., Eds. Open Access: Key Strategic, Technical and Economic Aspects, chapter 8. Chandos.

http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/12094/

Sale, Arthur (2006a) Researchers and institutional repositories, in Jacobs, Neil, Eds. Open Access: Key Strategic, Technical and Economic Aspects, chapter 9, pages 87-100. Chandos Publishing (Oxford) Limited.

http://eprints.comp.utas.edu.au:81/archive/00000257/

Sale, Arthur (2006b) Comparison of IR content policies in Australia. First Monday 11(4).

http://eprints.comp.utas.edu.au:81/archive/00000264/

Sale, Arthur (2006c) The impact of mandatory policies on ETD acquisition. D-Lib Magazine 12(4).

http://eprints.comp.utas.edu.au:81/archive/00000267/

Sale, Arthur (2006d) Generic Risk Analysis - Open Access for your institution. Technical Report, School of Computing, University of Tasmania.

http://eprints.comp.utas.edu.au:81/archive/00000266/

Sale, Arthur (2006e) Maximizing the research impact of your publications. Technical Report, School of Computing, University of Tasmania.

http://eprints.comp.utas.edu.au:81/archive/00000279/

Sale, Arthur (2006f) The acquisition of open access research articles. Technical Report, School of Computing, University of Tasmania.

http://eprints.comp.utas.edu.au:81/archive/00000375/

Shadbolt, N., Brody, T., Carr, L. and Harnad, S. (2006) The Open Research Web: A Preview of the Optimal and the Inevitable, in Jacobs, N., Eds. Open Access: Key Strategic, Technical and Economic Aspects, chapter 21. Chandos.

http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/12453/

Swan, A. (2006) The culture of Open Access: researchers' views and responses, in Jacobs, N., Eds. Open Access: Key Strategic, Technical and Economic Aspects, chapter 7. Chandos.

http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/12428/

"What Provosts Need to Mandate" (2003)

http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/subject.html#3241

"Maximising the Return on UK's Public Investment in Research" (2005)

http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/subject,html#4755.html

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