Self-Archiving's Why's

by Mr. Stevan Harnad (Southampton University UK)

Tuesday 3 Apr 2001, 15:30 → 16:30 Europe/Zurich

593-R-010 (CERN)

Researchers publish their findings in order to make an impact on research, not in order to sell their words. Access-tolls are barriers to research impact. Authors can now free their refereed research papers from all access tolls immediately by self-archiving them on-line in their own institution's Eprint Archives. Free eprints.org software (http://www.eprints.org/) creates Archives compliant with the Open Archives Initiative (http://www.openarchives.org/) metadata-tagging Protocol OAI 1.0. These distributed institutional Archives are interoperable and can hence be harvested into global 'virtual' archives, citation-linked and freely navigable by all. Self-archiving should enhance research productivity and impact as well as providing powerful new ways of monitoring and measuring it. Mr. Harnad is currently Professor of Cognitive Science at Southampton University UK. His research is on categorisation, communication and cognition. He is the Founder and Editor of Behavioral and Brain Sciences <http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/bbs> (a paper journal publishedby Cambridge University Press), Psycoloquy <http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/psyc> (an electronic journal sponsored by the American Psychological Association) and the CogPrints Electronic Preprint Archive in the Cognitive ciences <http://cogprints.soton.ac.uk/> modelled on the Los Alamos Physics Eprint Archive and supported by JISC/eLib.

Note: Information by contacting Ms. Catharine Havard at 022/767 24 31 or Catharine.Havard@cern.ch

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