Faculty Attitudes and Behaviors Regarding Scholarly Communication: Survey Findings from the University of California http://osc.universityofcalifornia.edu/responses/materials/OSC-survey-full-20 070828.pdf
The UC Faculty Survey results are summarized in a somewhat misleading way: "There is limited but significant use of alternative forms of scholarship, with 21% of faculty having published in open-access journals, and 14% having posted peer-reviewed articles in institutional repositories or disciplinary repositories." (1) The practise in question is making published articles open access (not "alternative forms of scholarship"). (2) 21% of UC Faculty published articles in OA journals and 14% posted published postprints in repositories. (3) But 31% posted posted postprints on personal or departmental websites (and 29% posted preprints). So the comparison between OA publishing and OA self-archiving is not 21% vs. 14%. It's 21% vs. either 31% or anything up to 74% (if the 3 forms of self-archiving were additive). UC should correct these summary figures. Otherwise it is giving a very misleading picture of the actual proportions at UC between the two ways of providing OA. This is important, because it is OA self-archiving that has the greatest scope for growth and acceleration, as OA publishing cannot be mandated, but OA self-archiving can (and should be). Stevan Harnad AMERICAN SCIENTIST OPEN ACCESS FORUM: http://amsci-forum.amsci.org/archives/American-Scientist-Open-Access-Forum.h tml http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/ UNIVERSITIES and RESEARCH FUNDERS: If you have adopted or plan to adopt a policy of providing Open Access to your own research article output, please describe your policy at: http://www.eprints.org/signup/sign.php http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/71-guid.html http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/136-guid.html 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 an 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 own institutional repository. http://www.eprints.org/self-faq/ http://archives.eprints.org/ http://openaccess.eprints.org/