After the NIH Green OA Self-Archiving Mandate

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

                       ** Cross-Posted **

"Optimizing OA Self-Archiving Mandates:
What? Where? When? Why? How?"

http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/136-guid.html

This is from your greedy, never-satisfied Archivangelist:

Now that the NIH Green OA Self-Archiving Mandate looks as if it 
will shortly be signed into Law:

     (1) There is no need to wait to implement the NIH mandate

     (2) There is no need to ape it: It can easily be optimised

     (3) There is no need to reserve Green OA self-archiving for 
NIH-funded biomedical research

     (4) All universities should mandate that all their research 
articles in all their disciplines are self-archived

     (5) There is no need to self-archive all those articles in 
PubMed Central: They should be self-archived in each university's 
own Institutional Repository

     (6) There is no need to allow deposit to be embargoed for 12 
months: Deposit should be mandated immediately upon acceptance 
for publication

     (7) Embargoed articles can be set as Closed Access during 
any embargo

     (8) Meanwhile the Institutional Repository will allow users 
webwide to email the author a semi-automatic request for an 
eprint for individual use immediately for any deposit that is not 
yet OA.

This will provide either immediate OA (62%) or almost-immediate, 
almost-OA (38%) for all research articles in all disciplines.

Summary of how to optimize the Green OA Self-Archiving Mandate:

   (I) Universities mandate deposit in their own Institutional 
Repositories.

   (II) Deposit is mandated immediately upon acceptance for 
publication.

   (III) The permissible embargo on the date the deposit is set 
as OA, not on the day the deposit is made.

Stevan Harnad