What can publishers do to facilitate self-archiving?
Support Open Access by adopting a “green” author self-archiving policy, i.e. giving your green light to author self-archiving of preprints and postprints (not necessarily the publisher’s PDF) as over ninety percent of journals sampled (8,000+) have already done. See the Directory of Journals’ Policies on Author Self-Archiving. See also FOS policy statements by learned societies and professional associations and “The Green Road to Open Access: A Leveraged Transition”. Publishers are encouraged to fill out the SHERPA/ROMEO webform describing their self-archiving policy statement for inclusion in the Romeo publishers directory and to email their journals list (with ISSNs and URLs) to Maria at http://romeo.eprints.org/corrections.php for inclusion in the Romeo journals directory . 1. Preservation “I worry about self-archiving because archived eprints may not continue to exist or to be accessible in perpetuum on-line, the way they were on-paper.” This worry is misplaced. It is not really a
Support Open Access by adopting a “green” author self-archiving policy, i.e. giving your green light to author self-archiving of preprints and postprints (not necessarily the publisher’s PDF) as over ninety percent of journals sampled (8,000+) have already done. See the Directory of Journals’ Policies on Author Self-Archiving. See also FOS policy statements by learned societies and professional associations and “The Green Road to Open Access: A Leveraged Transition”. Publishers are encouraged to fill out the SHERPA/ROMEO webform describing their self-archiving policy statement for inclusion in the Romeo publishers directory and to email their journals list (with ISSNs and URLs) to Maria at http://romeo.eprints.org/corrections.php for inclusion in the Romeo journals directory . 1. Preservation “I worry about self-archiving because archived eprints may not continue to exist or to be accessible in perpetuum on-line, the way they were on-paper.” This worry is misplaced. It is not really a
