100 Publishers, 8689 Journals, 86% Green on self-archiving

[Stevan Harnad]

Please see the lastest statistics on the percentage of journals surveyed
that have already give their official green light to their authors to
make their own articles Open Access (OA) by self-archiving them in their
own Insitutional OA Eprint Archives:

    http://romeo.eprints.org/stats.php

So if you wish for Open Access (OA), don't blame the publishers!

It is now more clearly then ever all in the hands of authors, their
employers and their funders:

    http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Temp/UKSTC.htm
    http://www.arl.org/sparc/core/index.asp?page=o31

The benefits of OA to research and researchers are being amply
demonstrated in the form of OA's power to maximize research impact
by maximizing research access:

    http://citebase.eprints.org/isi_study/

The means of providing OA are clearly mapped out, tested,
demonstrated to work, and ready to be implemented:

    http://www.eprints.org/signup/sign.php
    http://software.eprints.org/handbook/departments.php

If there's indeed a will, then the way is crystal clear:
it couldn't be clearer.

Stevan Harnad

UNIVERSITIES: If you have adopted or plan to adopt an institutional
policy of providing Open Access to your own research article output,
please describe your policy at:
        http://www.eprints.org/signup/sign.php

UNIFIED DUAL OPEN-ACCESS-PROVISION POLICY:
    BOAI-2 ("gold"): Publish your article in a suitable open-access
            journal whenever one exists.
            http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/boaifaq.htm#journals
    BOAI-1 ("green"): Otherwise, publish your article in a suitable
            toll-access journal and also self-archive it.
            http://www.eprints.org/self-faq/
    http://www.soros.org/openaccess/read.shtml

AMERICAN SCIENTIST OPEN ACCESS FORUM:
A complete Hypermail archive of the ongoing discussion of providing
open access to the peer-reviewed research literature online (1998-2004)
is available at:
    http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/index.html
        To join the Forum:
http://amsci-forum.amsci.org/archives/American-Scientist-Open-Access-Forum.html
        Post discussion to:
    american-scientist-open-access-forum at amsci.org