Stevan, How would you go about funding the conversion of individual institutions such as universities?
How would you use funding to achieve "the implementation of official institutional self-archiving *policies*"? As a member of the Information Sub-Board of OSI, I would be interested in seeing a series of concrete tactics and strategies in this regard. Best, Jean-Claude Guédon On Fri October 1 2004 04:40 pm, Stevan Harnad wrote: > Prior Reference: > > "A Keystroke Koan For Our Open Access Times" > http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/3061.html > > The two funding notices below from Open Access News caught my eye for the > sheer irony of these misdirected good intentions: Of course OA journal > publishing can use all the financial help it can get, but if these two > well-meaning OA supporters -- JISC and OSI -- were to spend the same > amount of money on funding the conversion of individual institutions > rather than individual journals to OA provision (by funding the creation > of institutional OA Eprint Archives and, more important, the > implementation of official institutional self-archiving *policies*), that > would generate far, far more OA for the same money! > > http://software.eprints.org/handbook/departments.php > > The annual journal-article output of a university is far bigger than that > of a journal, and university OA provision propagates across journals (and > universities). Moreover, the per-article costs of funding self-archiving > are incomparably lower. > > http://www.eprints.org/signup/sign.php > > When will OA-funders at last realize that they are doing far less for OA > when they just keep going for gold, instead of green? > > Harnad, S., Brody, T., Vallieres, F., Carr, L., > Hitchcock, S., Gingras, Y, Oppenheim, C., Stamerjohanns, > H., & Hilf, E. (2004) The Access/Impact Problem and the > Green and Gold Roads to Open Access. Serials Review 30. > http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Temp/impact.html > Shorter version: > The green and the gold roads to Open Access. Nature Web Focus. > http://www.nature.com/nature/focus/accessdebate/21.html > > ------------- > > Funding to convert conventional journals to OA > http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2004_09_26_fosblogarchive.html#a10965498 >6689264758 > > JISC has announced another round of funding for publishers to > convert conventional journals to open access. From the tender: JISC > "invites proposals from publishers or learned societies looking > to move to an open access model for their journal(s). JISC will > award short term funding to a small number of publishers or learned > societies who agree to waive open access submission and publication > fees for UK Higher Education (HE) staff for a one-year period. There > is funding of 150,000 pounds available to support this Initiative in > the 2004-05 Academic Year (1 August 2004 ? 31 July 2005). The deadline for > submission of proposals is 12 noon on Thursday 11 November 2004." > http://www.jisc.ac.uk/index.cfm?name=funding_open_access2 > > OSI grants program for OA journals > http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2004_09_26_fosblogarchive.html#a10964728 >0440189239 > > The Open Society Institute Information Program has announced a new > grants program for open access journals. OSI is providing $50,000 > "to support the publication in open access journals of articles by > authors residing and working in countries where the Soros foundations > network is active." The funding covers article processing fees charged > by OA journals for accepted articles and will be paid directly to > the journals. The program covers all open-access journals and all > disciplines. Journal publishers may apply online. > http://www.soros.org/openaccess/grants-journals.shtml > > -------- > > Stevan Harnad
