Dear friends,

Researchers who give away their research findings
have the same right who don't give away, both
protected by copyright. Give away authors share
their research for the sake of promoting,
fostering and bettering with a positive impact
worldwide community of researchers and users
alike; publishers, instead, do it for the sake of
profits. Where should librarians stand? To be
part of the solution or the problem of giving
humankind's users --from the craddle to the
grave-- unhampered, irrestrictive rights and
empowerment for access, archiving, organization,
dissemination and use of information, knowledge
and chances are wisdom? They should be part of
the solution.

And to be part of the solutions, we should
research about it. By knowing more about this
phenomenon, the more we understand about it... so
leave you with this masterpiece on the subject:

Harnad, Stevan (2003). "Open Access to
Peer-Reviewed Research Through Author/Institution
Self-Archiving: Maximizing Research Impact by
Maximizing Online Access." In: Law, Derek &
Judith Andrews, Eds. Digital Libraries: Policy
Planning and Practice. Ashgate Publishing 2003.
http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Tp/resolution.htm

Abstract:
For Whom the Gate Tolls?
How and Why to Free the Refereed Research
Literature 
Online Through Author/Institution Self-Archiving,
Now 
Stevan Harnad 
Intelligence/Agents/Multimedia Group 
Department of Electronics and Computer Science 
University of Southampton 
Highfield, Southampton 
SO17 1BJ UNITED KINGDOM 
http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/

ABSTRACT: All refereed journals will soon be
available online; most of them already are. This
means that anyone will be able to access them
from any networked desk-top. The literature will
all be interconnected by citation, author, and
keyword/subject links, allowing for unheard-of
power and ease of access and navigability.
Successive drafts of pre-refereeing preprints
will be linked to the official refereed draft, as
well as to any subsequent corrections, revisions,
updates, comments, responses, and underlying
empirical databases, all enhancing the
self-correctiveness, interactivity and
productivity of scholarly and scientific research
and communication in remarkable new ways. New
scientometric indicators of digital impact are
also emerging (http://opcit.eprints.org) to chart
the online course of knowledge. But there is
still one last frontier to cross before science
reaches the optimal and the inevitable: Just as
there is no longer any need for research or
researchers to be constrained by the
access-blocking restrictions of paper
distribution, there is no longer any need to be
constrained by the impact-blocking financial
fire-walls of
Subscription/Site-License/Pay-Per-View (S/L/P)
tolls for this give-away literature. Its
author/researchers have always donated their
research reports for free (and its
referee/researchers have refereed for free), with
the sole goal of maximizing their impact on
subsequent research (by accessing the eyes and
minds of fellow-researchers, present and future)
and hence on society. Generic (OAi-compliant)
software is now available free so that
institutions can immediately create Eprint
Archives in which their authors can self-archive
all their refereed papers for free for all
forever (http://www.eprints.org/). These
interoperable Open Archives
(http://www.openarchives.org) will then be
harvested into global, jointly searchable
"virtual archives" (e.g.,
http://arc.cs.odu.edu/). "Scholarly Skywriting"
in this PostGutenberg Galaxy will be dramatically
(and measurably) more interactive and productive,
spawning its own new digital metrics of
productivity and impact, allowing for an online
"embryology of knowledge." 

Have you already signed the Budapest Open Access
Initiative?
I have already signed it, check it out:
http://www.soros.org/openaccess/search.cfm?q=Muela+meza

Also noteworthy, for more information on the
subject read:
Eprint Archives on Online Research Communication
and Open Access by Stevan Harnad's 
http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/intpub.html

And

Peter Suber's Timeline Timeline of the Open
Access Movement, formerly called the Timeline of
the Free Online Scholarship Movement.
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/timeline.htm

Recorded history has nearly 7, 000 years chained,
it's about time for information liberation.
La historia encriptada tiene casi 7 mil años
encadenada, es tiempo de la liberacion de la
informacion.

"The Era is giving birth to a new heart
it cannot resist it is dying of pain
so we must join it running
because our future is falling apart
in every home
in everywhere
for every human being..."
-- Silvio Rodriguez, Cuban songwriter and singer

Cheers!
Gracias!

Zapopan Muela, Librarian, Bibliotecario

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"no necesito hacer hincapie en que la libertad de enseñanza y la libertad de opinion en la literatura y en la prensa son las bases para el desarrollo natural de cualquier individuo" -- Albert Einstein. Sobre el humanismo. Escritos sobre política, sociedad y ciencia. Barcelona: Ediciones Paidos, 1995, p. 68..


	
        	
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