Council of Science Editors (CSE) Annual Meeting
Pittsburgh PA 4 May 2003.
http://www.councilscienceeditors.org/events_03annualMtg.shtml
Keynote Address:
Author/institution self-archiving and the future of peer-reviewed journals
Stevan Harnad
The online medium has opened up a powerful new capability that will
dramatically increase the visibility, accessibility, navigability,
interactivity, usability and citability, hence the speed, impact
and productivity, of peer-reviewed research. In the paper medium,
peer-reviewed journals performed two essential functions: Implementing
peer review and disseminating its outcome. In the online medium,
journals' only essential function is implementing peer review. The
digital papers -- before and after peer review -- will be
self-archived on-line in researchers' own institutional Eprint
Archives, where the full-texts will be openly accessible to
all potential users worldwide. The much lower costs of implementing
peer review alone (about $500 per paper) will be paid for up-front by
author/institutions out of a portion of their annual windfall savings
from subscription/license cancellations. Research, researchers,
their institutions, research funders and its tax-payers will all be
the beneficiaries, because of the greatly enhanced research impact
and productivity made possible by open access.
In my talk I will describe:
(1) how the Open Archives Initiative (OAI) metadata harvesting
protocol makes all OAI-compliant institutional Eprint Archives
interoperable:
http://www.openarchives.org
(2) how free open-source software creates OAI-compliant institutional
Eprint Archives for self-archiving:
http://software.eprints.org/
(3) how online peer review can cut journal costs and increase the
speed, efficiency and equitability of peer review:
http://psycprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/
(4) how the contents of the Eprint Archives are being
citation-interlinked to provide rich new scientometric indicators
of research usage, impact and productivity:
http://opcit.eprints.org
(5) how researchers, their institutions, and their research funders
can hasten the optimal/inevitable era of open access through
self-archiving
http://www.eprints.org/self-faq/
(6) how the Soros Foundation's Budapest Open Access Initiative
(BOAI) is working to promote both institutional self-archiving and
open-access journals:
http://www.soros.org/openaccess/
Stevan Harnad
