Institutional repositories: Is the open access door half open or half shut?

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Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 85-89

  Harris, Evan ^a  

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EID: 17744367629     PISSN: 09531513     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1087/0953151053585000     Document Type: Article

References (10)

1. The Tenth Report of the Science and Technology Committee, Session 2003-04, Scientific Publications: Free for All?, HC 399,
2. The Government's first Response to HC 399 was published alongside a further short Report from the Committee and responses from other organizations in the Fourteenth Report of the Science and Technology Committee, Session 2003-04, Responses to the Committee's Tenth Report, Session 2003-04, Scientific Publications: Free for All?, HC 1200,
3. The Government's Response to HC 1200 was published alongside a response from the Office of Fair Trading as the Third Special Report of the Science and Technology Committee, Session 2004-05, Responses to the Committee's Tenth Report, Session 2003-04, Scientific Publications: Free for All? Responses to the Committee's 14th Report of Session 2003-04, HC 249.
4. Wellcome Trust and National Library of Medicine in talks for worldwide open access archive. Wellcome Trust press release, 4 Nov 2004 (http://www.wellcome.ac.uk).
5. The Select Committee's Tenth Report of Session 2003-04, HC 399, focused on institutional repositories, defined as 'online archives set up and managed by research institutions to house articles published by authors at the institutions involved. Such repositories can accept articles either before or after publication (pre-print repositories and post-print repositories) : the timing of the deposit in relation to publication has copyright implications' (p. 8). Repositories do not have to be institutionally based.
6. Defined in the Select Committee's Tenth Report of Session 2003-04, HC 399, as 'an emerging publishing model. Authors or, more usually, their research funders pay to publish their article in a journal. The publishers send the articles out for peer review. Those articles that are deemed to be of a sufficiently high standard are edited and published. The journal is disseminated free of charge, primarily via the internet, although sometimes in paper form too. In some cases the author, or funder, pays a submission fee in advance of the publication fee in order to cover the adminis-native costs of processing their article, whether or not it is accepted for publication. Author-pays publishing is often referred to as open access publishing' (p. 7).
7. NIH calls on scientists to speed public release of research publications: online archive will make articles accessible to the public. National Institutes of Health Press release, 3 Feb 2005 (http://www.nih.gov).
8. HC 399, p. 31.
9. I. Rowlands, D. Nicholas and P. Huntington, Scholarly Communication in the Digital Environment: What Do Authors Want? Findings of an International Survey of Author Opinion. London: City University, 2004.
10. The Select Committee used the term 'author-pays' to describe the publishing model in which authors pay to publish, while readers are able to read published output free of charge. The term 'open access' is used here instead because this is the term used in the CIBER study.