Open Access Now!

["Klaus Graf" <klaus.graf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Peter Suber hat eine englischsprachige kurze Einfuehrung
zum Thema "Open Access" geschrieben - fuer diejenigen, die
noch nicht mit dem Thema vertraut sind:

http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/overview.htm

In D-Lib wird von Harnad/Brody unterstrichen, dass Open
Access den Impact Faktor von Zeitschriftenliteratur
dramatisch steigert:
http://www.dlib.org/dlib/june04/harnad/06harnad.html

Dazu aus Subers Weblog:
"Ann Wolpert, the Director of Libraries at MIT, spoke about
institutional repositories and DSpace. Excerpt from the
OCLC press release: "Ms. Wolpert said that faculty and
administrators are recognizing the benefits of implementing
institutional repositories. She noted that digitally
accessible information is statistically demonstrated to be
used 10 times more often than print. 'So faculty have a
tremendous incentive to move their content onto the Web
because they know it is going to be read on the Web,' she
said. 'There are really compelling reasons for provosts and
presidents of academic institutions to make an
institutional repository a priority in terms of making a
statement about how innovative an organization is, or the
depth and breadth of its intellectual content.' " 

Harnad/Brody schliessen:

"It is hence clear that the ball is now in the
universities' court: The sooner they extend their existing
publish-or-perish policies to require also providing OA for
all those published articles, the sooner the entire
research community will enjoy the benefits of maximizing
its research impact by maximizing user access to its
research output: <http://www.eprints.org/signup/sign.php>."

Ich hatte schon vor Monaten auf diese Moeglichkeit, konkret
OA zu unterstuetzen, hingewiesen. Einige wenige
Universitaeten/Institutionen haben seit Februar diese
Selbstverpflichtung unterzeichnet (aus Deutschland an
Universitaeten nur die Uni Hamburg).

Open Access kann und muss ganz konkret gefoerdert werden -
regen Sie an, dass Ihre Institution sich dem Aufruf
anschliesst!

Klaus Graf
http://archiv.twoday.net