SCOAP3 is an experimental implementation of a pre-emptive Rowsean flip, but it is local, and in a unique field (particle physics) that already provides 100% Green OA by self-archiving. SCOAP3's is hence simply a consortial subsidy ...

SUMMARY: CERN has been one of the scholarly/scientific world's leaders in designing and implementing one of the first, and still the biggest and most successful institutional self-archiving policies: an institutional ...

In Open Access News, Peter Suber comments on John Harnad's critique of the CERN plan for gold OA: Harnad, John (2007) Clarifying Open Access: its implications for the research community (Letter). Physics World 29(3).

SUMMARY: Continuing an even earlier tradition of sharing preprints, particle physicists began self-archiving (Green OA) spontaneously in 1991, as soon as the Web was invented (at CERN). They reached 100% Green OA ...

"SCOAP3 support in the United States almost complete!… So far, over 150 U.S. libraries and library consortia have pledged a total of over 3.2 Million dollars to the SCOAP3 initiative. This is almost the entire contribution ...

(4) CERN could have done a far greater service for other disciplines and for the growth of OA if it had put its weight and energy behind promoting its own own Green OA policy as a model worldwide, instead of diverting ...

CERN is an institution, but not a multidisciplinary university: High Energy Physics only. CERN has, however, done the recommended estimate of its annual OA growth in 2006 and found its IR "Three Quarters Full and ...

"Similarly in Figure 4 (if I understand the axes correctly), CERN articles are more than twice as likely to be in the 20+ citation category than in the 1-5 citation category, a fact that may distort further interpretation of your data as it ...

(The finding of an equally large self-archiving advantage for mandated and unmandated self-archiving was also confirmed for CERN, whose articles are all in physics -- although one could perhaps argue that CERN articles ...

["a concise summary of many of the pioneering (e.g. QUT, Wellcome, Zurich, HHMI, FWF), comprehensive (e.g. PMC, ukPMC, INRIA/France) and international (e.g. SCOAP3) implementation efforts."] Armbruster, Chris, Open ...

At least two of those institutions (Southampton ECS and CERN) and probably the other two also (Minho and QUT) have deposit rates of close to 100% by now. (We have since extended the analyses to 2009 and found exactly ...

(Some of the already adopted institutional/departmental mandates, such as Southampton's, Minho's, QUT's and CERN's are already optimal, requiring immediate deposit, and of course institutional deposit.) Comhghairdeas ...

PS I think a bit of a storm is now brewing in the physics community over the CERN initiative to promote an immediate transition to Gold OA publishing in particle physics. The concern is that this will divert scarce funds from ...

The four mandated institutions were Southampton University (ECS), Minho, Queensland University of Technology and CERN. Out of our total set of 11801 mandated, self-archived OA articles, we first set aside all those (279) ...

The earliest mandates (U. Southampton School of Electrons and Computer Science, 2003, and CERN, 2004 are already at or near 100% Green OA. Stevan Harnad EnablingOpenScholarship. Harnad, S. (2011) Gold Open ...

But it should be mentioned that the SCOAP3 project is effectively the one that I called into question above: No institution can or will guarantee that it will keep paying for subscriptions in perpetuo. So the jury is still out on ...

... energy physicists in the sharing and distribution of preprints in hard copy form, at central deposit sites such as CERN and SLAC) -- the original proposal to self-archive locally mutated, temporarily, into central self-archiving, ...

Not all the disciplines are as powerful as particle physics, which, according to CERN director Robert Aymar, can easily finance the transition of the few journals in the field to complete open access." Not all physicists are so ...

Assuming that (as reported by Southampton and CERN) 40-70% of these, at least, are postprints, it looks very much as if an institutional postprint self-archiving mandate has served these other institutions well. Particularly ...

There may be a plausible case to be made that one of our four mandated institutions -- CERN -- is an elite institution. (It is also ... But, as we reported, we re-did our analysis removing CERN, and we got the same outcome.

... had already long been doing much the same thing in paper (at the CERN and SLAC paper depositories), and necessarily centrally, because in the paper medium there is no way one can send one's paper to "everyone," nor ...

Efforts in this direction have already started, with initiatives such as SCOAP3... Posted by Stevan Harnad in Institutional Repositories at 16:43 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0). Trackbacks. Trackback specific URI for this entry ...

This has since been confirmed by seven research institutions worldwide (two in Australia, two in Switzerland [one of them CERN], one in Portugal, one in the UK and one in India [National Institution of Technology, Rourkela]) ...

3.8 The four institutions worldwide that have adopted a self-archiving mandate to date (CERN in Switzerland, Queensland University of Technology in Australia, Minho University in Portugal, and the ECS Department at ...

NIH and CERN have different deposit rates, reflecting the difference between a request and a requirement. NIH, with only a request, has a deposit rate of, 4%, whereas CERN, with a requirement, is approaching 100%.

SCOAP3 is likewise a co-bundled, price-lock-in "membership" scheme, but it matters much less, because it is being pushed through in the only field that already has near 100% Green OA self-archiving without its having to be ...