As a historic matter: The European Research Council
finalised its
Green OA Self-Archiving Mandate (and it did so 19 days
before the
NIH mandate!):
"The ERC requires that all peer-reviewed
publications from ERC-funded
research projects be deposited on publication into an
appropriate
research repository where available, such as PubMed
Central, ArXiv
or an institutional repository, and subsequently made
Open Access
within 6 months of publication."
http://erc.europa.eu/pdf/ScC_Guidelin
es_Open_Access_revised_Dec07_FINAL.pdf
http:
//www.eprints.org/openaccess/policysignup/
Like the NIH mandate, the ERC mandate is also an
immediate-deposit mandate, with the allowable embargo
applying
only to the date that the deposit is made OA, not to the
date it
is deposited (which must be immediately upon publication).
The
ERC embargo is also shorter (6 months, whereas NIH is 12
months).
Better still, the deposit may be either institutional or
central.
The only way to improve on this nigh-optimal mandate is to
require that the deposit be institutional ("Deposit
Institutionally, Harvest Centrally") except if the
grant
recipient's institution does not yet have an institutional
repository (in which case deposit should be in an interim
generic
repository such as the UK's DEPOT or Europe's
EurOpenScholar).
Optimizing OA Self-Archiving Mandates: What? Where?
When? Why? How?
http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives
/136-guid.html
Registry of Open Access Repositories (ROAR)
http://roar.eprints.org/
Depot
http://depot.edina.ac.u
k/FAQ/
EurOpenScholar
http://recteur.
blogs.ulg.ac.be/?p=151
Bravo to both the US and Europe. Now it is time for the
other US
and EC funding agencies -- and, even more importantly, all
the US
and European universities -- to follow suit with Green OA
Self-Archiving Mandates of their own.
Stevan Harnad
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