Even our forthcoming study of Scholarly Publishing Practice suggests it's
about 50% (of publishers, not journals)
I am, however, getting the impression of a growth in the use of short-term
embargoes as publishers become more anxious about potential effects on
subscriptoins
Sally
Sally Morris, Chief Executive
Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers
South House, The Street, Clapham, Worthing, West Sussex BN13 3UU, UK
Tel: +44 (0)1903 871 686
Fax: +44 (0)1903 871 457
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Stevan Harnad" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Friday, March 24, 2006 6:15 PM
Subject: Re: Status Report on UK Institutional Open Archives
> On Fri, 24 Mar 2006, Chris Armstrong wrote:
>
>> Perhaps, one reason for the lack of certainty about OAIRs is the
>> (relatively) small number of journal publishers who are green;
>
> Ninety-three percent of the 8869 journals indexed by Romeo is
> (relatively) small?
> http://romeo.eprints.org/stats.php
>
>> AND the
>> fact that of those that do sanction deposit, many - such as Elsevier -
>> apparently only allow it in own-institution archives (or personal
>> websites). So all those 'willing' authors in 'unwilling' institutions are
>> effectively stymied.
>
> (1) Depositing in the author's own OA IR is the natural, optimal way to
> do it (the institution being the primary provider, and in a position to
> mandate and monitor compliance):
>
> Swan, A., Needham, P., Probets, S., Muir, A., Oppenheim, C., O?Brien,
> A., Hardy, R., Rowland, F. and Brown, S. (2005) Developing a model
> for e-prints and open access journal content in UK further and higher
> education. Learned Publishing 18(1) pp. 25-40.
> http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/11000/
>
> (2) Any institution is just a few K pounds away from having an IR.
> http://wiki.eprints.org/w/How_much_will_it_cost%3F
>
> (3) But the many existing IRs are 85%+ empty
> http://archives.eprints.org/
> -- except the ones with mandates
> http://www.eprints.org/openaccess/policysignup/
>
> (4) So the problem is not lack of IRs but lack of mandates.
>
> Stevan Harnad
>
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