How and Why To Free All Refereed Research. From Access- and Impact-Barriers Online, Now

Harnad, Stevan Carr, Les Brody, Tim

E-LIS eprint archive / E-LIS ( web site)
(ReLIS:oai:rclisa:464)

Abstract:

Researchers publish their findings in order to make an impact on research, not in order to sell their words. Access-tolls are barriers to research impact. Authors can now free their refereed research papers from all access tolls immediately by self-archiving them on-line in their own institution's Eprint Archives. Free eprints.org software creates Archives compliant with the Open Archives Initiative metadata-tagging Protocol OAI 1.0. These distributed institutional Archives are interoperable and can hence be harvested into global "virtual" archives, citation-linked and freely navigable by all. Self- archiving should enhance research productivity and impact as well as providing powerful new ways of monitoring and measuring it.

Creation: 01 Jan 2001
Keywords: H. Information sources, supports, channels

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