Open access mandate
Encyclopedia
An Open Access Self Archiving Mandate is a policy—adopted by a research institution (e.g., a university), a research funder or a government—that requires researchers (e.g., university faculty or research grant recipients) to make their published, peer-reviewed journal and conference papers open access (freely accessible to all potential users online, OA) by depositing their final, peer-reviewed drafts in an open access institutional repository
or central repository. ROARMAP
, the searchable Registry of Open Access Repository Mandatory Archiving Policies at the University of Southampton
indexes the world's institutional, funder and governmental OA mandates (and the Open Access Scholarly Information Sourcebook (OASIS) as well as EnablingOpenScholarship (EOS) graph the quarterly outcome).
In international, cross-disciplinary surveys conducted by Swan (2005), the vast majority of researchers respond that they would self archive willingly if their institutions or funders mandated it. Outcome studies by Sale (2006) have confirmed these survey results. The growth rate of both mandated and unmandated institutional repositories worldwide is tracked by the University of Southampton's Registry of Open Access Repositories (ROAR)
Open Access Self Archiving has been mandated by over 150 universities (and parts of universities) worldwide (for example, in the US, Harvard and MIT, and in the EU, University College London and ETH Zürich) as well as over 50 research funders (including NIH in the US and RCUK and ERC in the EU). Mandate policy models and guidance have been provided by the Open Society Institute
's EPrints Handbook, EOS, OASIS and Open Access Archivangelism.
Institutional repository
An Institutional repository is an online locus for collecting, preserving, and disseminating - in digital form - the intellectual output of an institution, particularly a research institution....
or central repository. ROARMAP
ROARMAP
The Registry of Open Access Repositories Mandatory Archiving Policies is a searchable international registry charting the growth of Open access mandates adopted by universities, research institutions and research funders that require their researchers to provide open access to their peer-reviewed...
, the searchable Registry of Open Access Repository Mandatory Archiving Policies at the University of Southampton
University of Southampton
The University of Southampton is a British public university located in the city of Southampton, England, a member of the Russell Group. The origins of the university can be dated back to the founding of the Hartley Institution in 1862 by Henry Robertson Hartley. In 1902, the Institution developed...
indexes the world's institutional, funder and governmental OA mandates (and the Open Access Scholarly Information Sourcebook (OASIS) as well as EnablingOpenScholarship (EOS) graph the quarterly outcome).
In international, cross-disciplinary surveys conducted by Swan (2005), the vast majority of researchers respond that they would self archive willingly if their institutions or funders mandated it. Outcome studies by Sale (2006) have confirmed these survey results. The growth rate of both mandated and unmandated institutional repositories worldwide is tracked by the University of Southampton's Registry of Open Access Repositories (ROAR)
Open Access Self Archiving has been mandated by over 150 universities (and parts of universities) worldwide (for example, in the US, Harvard and MIT, and in the EU, University College London and ETH Zürich) as well as over 50 research funders (including NIH in the US and RCUK and ERC in the EU). Mandate policy models and guidance have been provided by the Open Society Institute
Open Society Institute
The Open Society Institute , renamed in 2011 to Open Society Foundations, is a private operating and grantmaking foundation started by George Soros, aimed to shape public policy to promote democratic governance, human rights, and economic, legal, and social reform...
's EPrints Handbook, EOS, OASIS and Open Access Archivangelism.
See also
- Budapest Open Access InitiativeBudapest Open Access InitiativeThe Budapest Open Access Initiative was a conference convened by the Open Society Institute on December 1-2, 2001. This small gathering of individuals is recognised as one of the major historical, and defining, events of the open access movement....
- Institutional repositoryInstitutional repositoryAn Institutional repository is an online locus for collecting, preserving, and disseminating - in digital form - the intellectual output of an institution, particularly a research institution....
- Open accessOpen accessOpen access refers to unrestricted access via the Internet to articles published in scholarly journals, and also increasingly to book chapters or monographs....
- Registry of Open Access Repositories (ROAR)Registry of Open Access RepositoriesROAR is a searchable international Registry of Open Access Repositories indexing the creation, location and growth of open access institutional repositories and their contents. ROAR was created by EPrints at University of Southampton in 2003...
- Registry of Open Access Repositories Mandatory Archiving Policies (ROARMAP)ROARMAPThe Registry of Open Access Repositories Mandatory Archiving Policies is a searchable international registry charting the growth of Open access mandates adopted by universities, research institutions and research funders that require their researchers to provide open access to their peer-reviewed...
- Self-ArchivingSelf-archivingTo self-archive is to deposit a free copy of a digital document on the World Wide Web in order to provide open access to it. The term usually refers to the self-archiving of peer-reviewed research journal and conference articles as well as theses, deposited in the author's own institutional...
- Subversive ProposalSubversive ProposalThe "Subversive Proposal" was an Internet by Stevan Harnad on calling on all authors of "esoteric" writings—written only for research impact, not for royalty income—to archive them free for all online...
External links
- Open Access Overview by Peter SuberPeter SuberPeter Suber is the creator of the game Nomic and a leading voice in the open access movement. He is a senior research professor of philosophy at Earlham College, the open access project director at Public Knowledge, a senior researcher at SPARC , and a Fellow at Harvard's and...