The University of Bremen, Germany has signed the Registry of Institutional OA Self-Archiving Policies http://www.eprints.org/signup/fulllist.php
http://archives.eprints.org/?url=http%3A%2F%2Felib.suub.uni-bremen.de%2F http://www.eprints.org/signup/fullinfo.php?inst=University%20of%20Bremen in accordance with the Berlin-3 recommendation: http://www.eprints.org/berlin3/outcomes.html That now makes it 6+ countries and 13+ institutions who have registered their existing or planned OA self-archiving policies so far: Germany (4), France (3+) US (2) UK (1+) Portugal (1), Australia (1) Multinational (CERN) (1) But the rank orders are a little misleading, as France's institutions include the CNRS, a nation-wide network of laboratories that constitutes a multidisciplinary mega-institution http://www.eprints.org/signup/fullinfo.php?inst=CNRS%20%28Centre%20National%20de%20la%20recherche%20scientifique%29 And it looks as if Germany might soon have a similar mega-institution signing (the Max-Planck institutions): http://159.226.100.146/%BB%E1%D2%E9%BF%CE%BC%FE/Session_3-1(George_Botz).pdf Also, of the 13+ institutions with self-archiving policies, two of them already have adopted a self-archiving *requirement* rather than merely a self-archiving *recommendation*: the UK's University of Southampton (ECS) and the Multinational Laboratory, CERN). This stronger policy is also reflected in the fact that the policies have also generated a >90% self-archiving rate for current research output: http://www.eprints.org/signup/fullinfo.php?inst=University%20of%20Southampton%20Department%20of%20Electronics%20and%20Computer%20Science and http://www.eprints.org/signup/fullinfo.php?inst=CERN%3A%20European%20Organization%20for%20Nuclear%20Research And if all goes well, the UK may soon be the first country to have a nation-wide self-archiving requirement for all RCUK-funded research: http://www.rcuk.ac.uk/access/statement.pdf American Scientist Open Access Forum Topic Thread: "The self-archiving sweepstakes" (began 2003) http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/2662.html http://listserver.sigmaxi.org/sc/wa.exe?A1=ind03&L=american-scientist-open-access-forum&F=l#190 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 (1998-2005) 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 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/