More on the OA mandate proposal from EURAB
Stevan Harnad, EURAB’s Proposed OA Mandate: Strongest of the 20 Adopted and 5 Proposed So Far, Open Access Archivangelism, January 15, 2007. Excerpt:
The ROARMAP Registry of University and Funder Self-Archiving Mandates keeps growing: 56 policies, 20 adopted mandates, and 5 proposed mandates so far, worldwide. But the latest mandate proposal from EURAB is the best of them all: So good that I don’t have a single recommendation for improving it! It has all the essential ingredients:
- Deposit of peer-reviewed postprint is required
- Deposit required immediately upon acceptance for publication (no exceptions, no delays)
- Deposit in Institutional or Central Repository
- Set access to deposit as Open Access as soon as possible, within 6 months at the latest.
Optimizing OA Self-Archiving Mandates: What? Where? When? Why? How?
That’s it. It’s not possible to design a better policy, or one that is surer to get the entire international research community to 100% OA more reliably, quickly or effectively….Please emulate it at your university, research institution or funding agency and we’ll reach the optimal and inevitable at long last….
