On Tue, 1 Aug 2006, Stuart David Lewis wrote: > See: http://www.emeraldinsight.com/info/journals/prog/prog.jsp > As the editor notes in her editorial: > > "Let us hope that papers published in Program will be deposited in > appropriate IRs and so be preserved for all those who wish to gain > access to them in the future.". Let us hope that it will be deposited for far, far better reasons than that (since the preservation of journal-published articles, whether paper or digital, is not and should not be the author's responsibility). Self-archive your own final drafts of published articles in your IR so that those who want to access and use them -- today, tomorrow, and thereafter -- can do so, even if they cannot afford access to the journal in which they were published. The purpose of making articles OA -- and the purpose of OA IRs -- is not digital preservation! It is immediate and ongoing research access and impact. Amen. Stevan Harnad AMERICAN SCIENTIST OPEN ACCESS FORUM: A complete Hypermail archive of the ongoing discussion of providing open access to the peer-reviewed research literature online (1998-2005) is available at: http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/ To join or leave the Forum or change your subscription address: http://amsci-forum.amsci.org/archives/American-Scientist-Open-Access-Forum.html Post discussion to: [log in to unmask] UNIVERSITIES: If you have adopted or plan to adopt an institutional policy of providing Open Access to your own research article output, please describe your policy at: http://www.eprints.org/signup/sign.php UNIFIED DUAL OPEN-ACCESS-PROVISION POLICY: BOAI-1 ("green"): Publish your article in a suitable toll-access journal http://romeo.eprints.org/ OR BOAI-2 ("gold"): Publish your article in a open-access journal if/when a suitable one exists. http://www.doaj.org/ AND in BOTH cases self-archive a supplementary version of your article in your institutional repository. http://www.eprints.org/self-faq/ http://archives.eprints.org/ http://openaccess.eprints.org/