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Central versus institutional self-archiving

Central versus institutional self-archiving
Central versus institutional self-archiving
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.
open access, self-archiving, research policy, research impact, citation, institutional repositories, central repositories
Harnad, Stevan
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Harnad, Stevan
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Harnad, Stevan (2006) Central versus institutional self-archiving

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Abstract

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.

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Published date: October 2006
Keywords: open access, self-archiving, research policy, research impact, citation, institutional repositories, central repositories
Organisations: Web & Internet Science

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Local EPrints ID: 263025
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/263025
PURE UUID: ef3703c6-fdb7-4f3a-9e29-021ef921f1a9
ORCID for Stevan Harnad: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0001-6153-1129

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Date deposited: 28 Sep 2006
Last modified: 15 Mar 2024 02:48

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Author: Stevan Harnad ORCID iD

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