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On Tue, 2 Oct 2007, N. Miradon wrote: > I thank Professor Harnad for his long and detailed reply. > Meanwhile, I have received some results from a random spidering of staff > publication lists at > http://www.civil.soton.ac.uk/staff/allstaff/staffpubs.asp?NameID=**** > Here are the first three entries > > Prof. Mike McDonald ... 307 publications (17 in ePrints Soton) > Prof. Chris Clayton ... 221 publications (14 in ePrints Soton) > Prof. AbuBakr Bahaj ... 155 publications (25 in ePrints Soton) I am afraid I did not explain sufficiently explicitly: U. Southampton has a number of other IRs (at least 13) besides the ECS Department's IR. http://roar.eprints.org/index.php?action=search&query=southampton+soton& submit=Search The biggest of them is the university-wide IR, ePrints Soton: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/ However, as explained in my prior reply, whereas the departmental mandate of the School of Electronics and Computer Science (ECS) was officially adopted in January 2003, the university-wide mandate, though already officially approved some time ago, is still (for reasons unknown to me!) awaiting official adoption. In the meanwhile, the university as a whole has no self-archiving mandate yet, so whatever deposits you find in ePrints Soton will be the usual spontaneous (unmandated) ones (for which the worldwide baseline deposit rate is about 15%), probably increased in this case beyond that baseline also by library mediation and encouragement http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/research/projects/tardis (which Arthur Sale's analyses show to produce a better deposit rate, but nothing anywhere near Alma Swan's predicted 80-90% for mandated deposit). http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue11_10/sale/index.html The deposit of only a subset of a researcher's total publications reflects the fact that depositing current and future papers requires far fewer keystrokes and effort than depositing one's full prior opus (which may even require scanning and OCR) -- though eventually that should be deposited too!). http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/10688/ (CalTech, by the way, has at least 25 IRs! http://roar.eprints.org/index.php?action=search&query=caltech&submit=Sea rch ) I hope this dispels any further ambiguity! 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/