On Tue, 9 Nov 2004, Julian Newman wrote: > V useful stuff! But here's a thought: OK, 92% of *Journals* have given > green light to self-archiving - but what about *conferences* and > *workshops*? Given the propensity of many in Computing to regard > refereed conferences as their main publication medium, it seems even > more important that conference papers should be covered by the > self-archiving policy. > > It would be a mammoth task to cover every possible conference, but given > that a very high proportion of Computing conference proceedings are > published by ACM / Elsevier / IEEE / Kluwer-Springer, it might be > possible to get statements of policy wrt conference/workshop papers from > those four.
Peer-reviewed conference proceedings (and even unrefereed ones) are of course naturals for Open Access (OA) (and some already are OA). Computer scientists are especially good about self-archiving their papers (which are mostly conference papers), but usually just on their own websites, not in OAI-compliant archives. http://www.openarchives.org/Register/BrowseSites This is remedied in part by Citeseer http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/cs which harvests all those computer science papers self-archived on arbitrary websites and makes them jointly searchable. With over 750,000 papers, Citeseer is in fact the second-biggest ("virtual") OA Archive in the world. RepEc http://repec.org/ a harvested and federated virtual archive of economics papers is the biggest of all, with 140,000 pre-refereeing preprints and 144,000 refereed postprints. The biggest non-virtual central archive is, I believe, the Physics ArXiv http://arxiv.org with over 300,000 papers. But I think the OA way of the future is neither central harvesting of of papers self-archived on arbitrary websites, nor self-archiving in OAI central OAI Archives, but self-archiving in distributed institutional OAI Archives http://archives.eprints.org/eprints.php?action=browse which are then harvested by OAI harvesters like OAIster http://oaister.umdl.umich.edu/o/oaister/ and Citebase http://citebase.eprints.org/ What all of these are in turn waiting for is the implementation of the mandatory self-archiving policies that have lately been recommended in the UK, US and elsewhere: http://software.eprints.org/handbook/departments.php http://www.eprints.org/signup/sign.php The Romeo listing of green publishers and journals does include some conference proceedings too, but not many. http://romeo.eprints.org/ Stevan Harnad AMERICAN SCIENTIST OPEN ACCESS FORUM: A complete Hypermail archive of the ongoing discussion of providing open access to the peer-reviewed research literature online (1998-2004) is available at: http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/index.html To join or leave the Forum or change your subscription address: http://amsci-forum.amsci.org/archives/American-Scientist-Open-Access-Forum.html Post discussion to: [email protected] UNIVERSITIES: If you have adopted or plan to adopt an institutional policy of providing Open Access to your own research article output, please describe your policy at: http://www.eprints.org/signup/sign.php UNIFIED DUAL OPEN-ACCESS-PROVISION POLICY: BOAI-2 ("gold"): Publish your article in a suitable open-access journal whenever one exists. http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/boaifaq.htm#journals BOAI-1 ("green"): Otherwise, publish your article in a suitable toll-access journal and also self-archive it. http://www.eprints.org/self-faq/ http://www.soros.org/openaccess/read.shtml > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Council of Professors and Heads of Computing in UK > > universities [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf > > Of Stevan Harnad > > Sent: Monday, November 08, 2004 05:10 > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: Re: Guide for the Perplexed: Re: UK Select Committee Inquiry > > > > > > On Mon, 8 Nov 2004, Ralph Martin wrote: > > > > > Stevan > > > > > > Thanks for your excellent summary. > > > > > > On 8 Nov 2004, at 3:37 pm, Stevan Harnad wrote: > > > > > > > (3) The Committee's formal report in 2004 accordingly only > > > > recommended one mandatory step and that was that all UK funded > > > > researchers should be required by their funders to > > self-archive all > > > > their published journal articles on their own institution's > > > > websites, thereby making them free for all users, worldwide. > > > > > > Can you summarise, for those of us who are short of time to > > read all > > > the lengthy reports, how this was supposed to be squared up > > with the > > > current arrangement which usually requires authors to sign > > a copyright > > > transfer form, and that some (but not all publishers) do not allow > > > republishing on the authors' own website (or his employers)? > > > > > > And what about work that is done outside a specifically > > funded grant? > > > > Ninety-two percent of journals have already given their green > > light to all their authors to self-archive. Of the remaining > > 8%, many will likewise agree if asked, and all will have to > > agree if the author's research-funder and/or employer mandates it. > > > http://romeo.eprints.org/stats.php > > That means 92% of unfunded research too, is already covered, and can > already be self-archived. The remaining 8% of unfunded research can > either go ahead and self-archive too (I recommend the Dutch "post and > tell" strategy, below), or wait until the worldwide groundswell from the > mandated and spontaneous OA growth reaches them too. > > http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2004_04_04_fosblogarchive.html#a10812 > 6147329143935 > > Stevan Harnad > > AMERICAN SCIENTIST OPEN ACCESS FORUM: > A complete Hypermail archive of the ongoing discussion of providing open > access to the peer-reviewed research literature online (1998-2004) is > available at: > http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/index.html > To join or leave the Forum or change your subscription address: > http://amsci-forum.amsci.org/archives/American-Scientist-Open-Access-For > um.html > Post discussion to: > [email protected] > > UNIVERSITIES: If you have adopted or plan to adopt an institutional > policy of providing Open Access to your own research article output, > please describe your policy at: > http://www.eprints.org/signup/sign.php > > UNIFIED DUAL OPEN-ACCESS-PROVISION POLICY: > BOAI-2 ("gold"): Publish your article in a suitable open-access > journal whenever one exists. > http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/boaifaq.htm#journals > BOAI-1 ("green"): Otherwise, publish your article in a suitable > toll-access journal and also self-archive it. > http://www.eprints.org/self-faq/ > http://www.soros.org/openaccess/read.shtml >
