Waking OA’s “slumbering giant”: the university's mandate to mandate open access

Harnad, Stevan (2008) Waking OA’s “slumbering giant”: the university's mandate to mandate open access. New Review of Information Networking, 14 (1), 51-68. (doi:10.1080/13614570903001322).

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Abstract

Universities (the universal research-providers) as well as research funders (public and private) are beginning to make it part of their mandates to ensure not only that researchers conduct and publish peer-reviewed research (“publish or perish”), but that they also make it available online, free for all. This is called Open Access (OA), and it maximizes the uptake, impact and progress of research by making it accessible to all potential users worldwide, not just those whose universities can afford to subscribe to the journal in which it is published. Researchers can provide OA to their published journal articles by self-archiving them in their own university’s online repository. Students and junior faculty – the next generation of research providers and consumers -- are in a position to help accelerate the adoption of OA self-archiving mandates by their universities, ushering in the era of universal OA.

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