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Self-archiving

To self-archive is to deposit a free copy of a digital document on the World Wide Web in order to provide open access to it. The term usually refers to the self-archiving of peer-reviewed research journal and conference articles as well as theses, deposited in the author's own institutional...

is to deposit a free copy of a digital document on the World Wide Web

World Wide Web

The World Wide Web is a system of interlinked hypertext documents accessed via the Internet...

in order to provide open access to it. The term usually refers to the self-archiving of peer-reviewed

Peer review

Peer review is a process of self-regulation by a profession or a process of evaluation involving qualified individuals within the relevant field. Peer review methods are employed to maintain standards, improve performance and provide credibility...

research journal and conference articles as well as theses, deposited in the author's own institutional repository

Institutional repository

An Institutional repository is an online locus for collecting, preserving, and disseminating - in digital form - the intellectual output of an institution, particularly a research institution....

or open archive

Open archive

An open archive is an institutional repository or some other web-accessible digital database that is compliant with the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting ....

for the purpose of maximizing its accessibility, usage and citation impact

Citation impact

Citation is the process of acknowledging or citing the author, year, title, and locus of publication of a source used in a published work. Such citations can be counted as measures of the usage and impact of the cited work. This is called citation analysis or bibliometrics...

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Self-archiving is one of two general methods for providing open access. It is sometimes called the "green" road to open access, while the other method - publishing in an open access journal

Open access journal

Open access journals are scholarly journals that are available online to the reader "without financial, legal, or technical barriers other than those inseparable from gaining access to the internet itself." Some are subsidized, and some require payment on behalf of the author.Subsidized journals...

- is also referred to as the "golden" road.

Self-archiving was first explicitly proposed as a universal practice by Stevan Harnad

Stevan Harnad

Stevan Harnad is a cognitive scientist.- Career :Harnad was born in Budapest, Hungary. He did his undergraduate work at McGill University and his graduate work at Princeton University's Department of Psychology...

in his 1994 online posting "Subversive Proposal

Subversive Proposal

The "Subversive Proposal" was an Internet by Stevan Harnad on calling on all authors of "esoteric" writings—written only for research impact, not for royalty income—to archive them free for all online...

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(later published in Association of Research Libraries) although computer scientists had been doing self-archiving spontaneously in anonymous FTP

File Transfer Protocol

File Transfer Protocol is a standard network protocol used to transfer files from one host to another host over a TCP-based network, such as the Internet. FTP is built on a client-server architecture and utilizes separate control and data connections between the client and server...

archives since at least the 1980s (see CiteSeer

CiteSeer

CiteSeer was a public search engine and digital library for scientific and academic papers. It is often considered to be the first automated citation indexing system and was considered a predecessor of academic search tools such as Google Scholar and Microsoft Academic Search. It was replaced by...

) and physicists had been doing it since the early 1990s on the web (see arXiv

ArXiv

The arXiv |Chi]], χ) is an archive for electronic preprints of scientific papers in the fields of mathematics, physics, astronomy, computer science, quantitative biology, statistics, and quantitative finance which can be accessed online. In many fields of mathematics and physics, almost all...

).

About 64% of the 999 publishers (and over 90% of the journals) currently registered in the SHERPA RoMEO publisher policy index endorse self-archiving by authors of the preprint

Preprint

A preprint is a draft of a scientific paper that has not yet been published in a peer-reviewed scientific journal.-Role:Publication of manuscripts in a peer-reviewed journal often takes weeks, months or even years from the time of initial submission, because manuscripts must undergo extensive...

and/or postprint versions of their papers. Whereas the right to self-archive postprints is a copyright matter, the right to self-archive preprints is merely a question of journal policy.

External links

A Subversive Proposal by S. Harnad, (1995), in Okerson, A. and O'Donnell, J., Eds. Scholarly Journals at the Crossroads: A Subversive Proposal for Electronic Publishing Association of Research Libraries
Self Archiving FAQ: Answers to most of the questions you might have about self-archiving. There is also a Glossary of Terms in case you find yourself wading in jargon.
Publisher copyright policies & self-archiving
Registry of Open Access Repository Material Archiving Policy (ROARMAP)
Open Access News by Peter Suber
Peter Suber
Peter Suber is the creator of the game Nomic and a leading voice in the open access movement. He is a senior research professor of philosophy at Earlham College, the open access project director at Public Knowledge, a senior researcher at SPARC , and a Fellow at Harvard's and...
science-advisor.net
Openarchives.eu - The European Guide to OAI-PMH Digital Repositories in the World
Information about Self-Archiving
Publisher copyright policies & self-archiving database
Berners-Lee, T., De Roure, D., Harnad, S. and Shadbolt, N. (2005) Journal publishing and author self-archiving: Peaceful Co-Existence and Fruitful Collaboration. http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/11160/
Brody, T. and Harnad, S. (2004) Using Web Statistics as a Predictor of Citation Impact http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Temp/timcorr.doc
Hajjem, C., Harnad, S. and Gingras, Y. (2005) Ten-Year Cross-Disciplinary Comparison of the Growth of Open Access and How it Increases Research Citation Impact. IEEE Data Engineering Bulletin 28(4) pp. 39-47. http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/11688/
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--- (1997). "How to Fast-Forward Learned Serials to the Inevitable and the Optimal for Scholars and Scientists." The Serials Librarian 30, no. 3/4: 73-81. http://cogprints.org/1695/1/harnad97.learned.serials.html
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--- (1998). "The Invisible Hand of Peer Review." Nature Web Matters, 5 November 1998. http://www.nature.com/nature/webmatters/invisible/invisible.html
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___(2010) The Immediate Practical Implication of the Houghton Report: Provide Green Open Access Now. Prometheus, 28 (1). pp. 55-59. http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/18514/
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