France's INRIA Registers Commitment to Implement BerlinDeclarationSelf-Archiving Policy Recommendation

[Stevan Harnad <harnad@ecs.soton.ac.uk>]

Prof. Jean-Pierre Verjus, Director of Scientific Information and
Communication for INRIA -- Institut national de recherche en informatique
et en automatique (French National Institute for Research in Computer
Sciences and Control) http://www.inria.fr/index.en.html -- has just signed
the

    Registry of Institutional OA Self-Archiving Policies
    http://www.eprints.org/signup/fulllist.php

INRIA is a national research institute with 6 units distributed across
France and totalling about 3000 personnel.

This brings to 11 the number of universities and research institutes
worldwide that have so far committed themselves to adopting a
self-archiving policy to implement the Berlin Declaration (along the lines
recommended by the Berlin 3 Meeting in Southampton on 1 March):

   http://www.eprints.org/berlin3/outcomes.html

The tally of universities and research institutes that have adopted
self-archiving policies to date is:

    France (4: 2 national institutes, 1 local institute, 1 laboratory),
    Germany (2: 1 university + 1 local institute) 
    Australia (1 university), 
    India (1 local institute) 
    Portugal (1 university) 
    UK (1 university)
    CERN (1 multi-national laboratory)

This is only the beginning. The Institutional Archives Registry

    http://archives.eprints.org/eprints.php?action=browse

lists a current total of 395 OAI-compliant Open Access Archives in
universities and research institutes in 40 countries.

These universities and research institutes are now encouraged to adopt an
institutional self-archiving policy and to register and describe it so
that universites and research institutes worldwide can emulate them at:

    http://www.eprints.org/signup/sign.php

    Archive type (number):

    * Research Institutional or Departmental (170)
    * e-Theses (54)
    * Research Cross-Institution (51)
    * Database (8)
    * e-Journal/Publication (37)
    * Demonstration (37)
    * Other (38)

    Country (number):

    * United States (116)
    * United Kingdom (52)
    * Germany (28)
    * Canada (26)
    * Brazil (18)
    * France (17)
    * Netherlands (16)
    * Australia (16)
    * Italy (14)
    * Sweden (11)
    * India (6)
    * Portugal (5)
    * Belgium (5)
    * Commercial (5)
    * Japan (4)
    * Denmark (4)
    * China (4)
    * Spain (4)
    * Finland (4)
    * Hungary (4)
    * Colombia (3)
    * Austria (3)
    * South Africa (3)
    * Switzerland (3)
    * Mexico (3)
    * Norway (3)
    * Singapore (2)
    * Chile (2)
    * Greece (2)
    * Ireland (2)
    * Network (1)
    * Argentina (1)
    * Turkey (1)
    * Russian Federation (1)
    * Namibia (1)
    * Peru (1)
    * Slovenia (1)
    * Israel (1)
    * Croatia (1)
    * Taiwan (1)