On Sat, 15 Nov 2003, Troy McClure wrote: > "What the Berlin Declaration says, in essence, is that (1) open online > access should be provided to all research output and that (2) all > research output should be deposited in an open-access archive." > > especially with respect to point two, is there an european initative to set > up and fund a single open access archive? could publishers not receive some > remuneration for contributing to this archive (e.g. based on the number of > citations of their articles), thus making their business models more viable > through an additional stream of revenues?
The 23,400 toll-access journals' publishers receive remuneration from the access-tolls, so there is no need for them to receive extra remuneration -- although there is a proposal by Thomas Walker [1998], which has since been implemented by several journals, to allow authors to pay their toll-access journals to self-archive their articles for them, if they don't wish to self-archive their articles for themselves: http://www.amsci.org/amsci/articles/98articles/walker.html http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/0000.html The 600 open-access journals http://www.doaj.org/ cover their costs from author publication fees. Author self-archiving is done by the authors themselves, and no one needs to pay or be paid for anything. There are both central and institutional open-access eprint archives for author self-archiving, and now that they are OAI-compliant and hence interoperable, it does not matter which OAI archive authors self-archive in, but the authors' institutions are the natural partners for self-archiving, because authors and their institutions (not their disciplines or some other central entity) share the benefits of the maximized research visibility and research impact that open access brings. Instutions are also in the best place to implement and monitor self-archiving policies for their own research output. http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Temp/archpolnew.html So institutional open-access archives are probably the most natural and stable solution. As to remuneration based on the number of citations to their articles: Researchers already receive this (via the publish-or-perish system, weighted by research impact), and so do journals (as toll-access selections are made by libraries partly on the basis of the journal's citation impact). If and when author-provided open-access through self-archiving ever begins to reduce toll-access journals' toll-revenues, there is a quite natural transition scenario from toll-access publishing to open-access publishing. http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Temp/archpolnew.html http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200304/cmselect/cmsctech/399/399we152.htm This is hypothetical, however, and irrelevant to the much more pressing immediate need to put an end to researchers', researcher institutions', research-funders' and and research's needless daily, weekly, monthly and yearly impact-loss because of access-denial to would-be users whose institutions cannot afford the access-tolls. http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Temp/self-archiving_files/Slide0025.gif That needless loss will be terminated immediately as soon as the Berlin Declaration is implemented and all research output is becomes openly accessible. Stevan Harnad NOTE: Complete archive of the ongoing discussion of providing open access to the peer-reviewed research literature online is available at the American Scientist September Forum (98 & 99 & 00 & 01 & 02 & 03): http://amsci-forum.amsci.org/archives/American-Scientist-Open-Access-Forum.html http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/index.html Posted discussion to: american-scientist-open-access-fo...@amsci.org Dual Open-Access Strategy: BOAI-2 ("gold"): Publish your article in a suitable open-access journal whenever one exists. BOAI-1 ("green"): Otherwise, publish your article in a suitable toll-access journal and also self-archive it. http://www.soros.org/openaccess/read.shtml http://www.eprints.org/signup/sign.php http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Temp/self-archiving_files/Slide0026.gif http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Temp/self-archiving_files/Slide0021.gif http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Temp/self-archiving_files/Slide0024.gif http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Temp/self-archiving_files/Slide0028.gif