Good news: Cornell University is now the second U.S. University (after University of Kansas) *not* to omit the all-important self-archiving component from its Faculty Senate Resolution on Scholarly Publishing, passed May 11 2005. http://www.library.cornell.edu/scholarlycomm/resolution.html
That critical component was this: "The Senate strongly urges all faculty to deposit preprint or postprint copies of articles in an open access repository such as the Cornell University DSpace Repository..." which is almost identical to the corresponding passage in the University of Kansas Resolution: "the University of Kansas Faculty Senate... Calls on all faculty of the University of Kansas to seek amendments... to permit the deposition of a digital copy of every article accepted by a peer-reviewed journal into the ScholarWorks repository..." http://www.eprints.org/signup/fullinfo.php?inst=University%20of%20Kansas "University of Kansas Registers its Institutional OA Self-Archiving Policy" (April 7, 2005) http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/4484.html This means that now Cornell too can register its self-archiving policy, as Kansas has already done, at: http://www.eprints.org/signup/fulllist.php being the second U.S. University to have adopted a self-archiving policy. Registering the new policy and describing its critical self-archiving component will help encourage other universities worldwide to follow suit: http://www.eprints.org/signup/sign.php Stevan Harnad 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-1 ("green"): Publish your article in a suitable toll-access journal http://romeo.eprints.org/ OR BOAI-2 ("gold"): Publish your article in a open-access journal if/when a suitable one exists. http://www.doaj.org/ AND in BOTH cases self-archive a supplementary version of your article in your institutional repository. http://www.eprints.org/self-faq/ http://archives.eprints.org/ AMERICAN SCIENTIST OPEN ACCESS FORUM: A complete Hypermail archive of the ongoing discussion of providing open access to the peer-reviewed research literature online (1998-2005) is available at: http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/ 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: american-scientist-open-access-fo...@amsci.org