** Apologies for Cross-Posting **

There has been dramatic progress in the adoption of Open Access
Self-Archiving Mandates lately.

ROARMAP (Registry of Open Access Repository Material Archiving Policies)
    http://www.eprints.org/signup/fulllist.php
and
ROAR (Registry of Open Access Repositories)
    http://archives.eprints.org/
now list:

       497 institutional repositories registered to date
        29 institutional or funder self-archiving policies
        *10 self-archiving mandates
        **4 funder self-archiving mandates

    *AUSTRALIA Queensland U. Technology
    *EUROPE CERN
    FRANCE CNRS
    FRANCE INRA
    FRANCE INRIA
    FRANCE Institut Jean Nicod
    FRANCE Inst fr rech exploit mer
    FRANCE U Lumiere Lyon 2
    GERMANY Bielefeld U
    GERMANY Humboldt U
    GERMANY Inst Sci Net Oldenburg
    GERMANY Potsdam U.
    GERMANY U Bremen
    GERMANY U Hamburg
    *INDIA Nat Inst Tech Rourkela
    NORWAY U Oslo
    *PORTUGAL U Minho
    SWEDEN Lund U
    *SWITZERLAND U Zurich
    UK CCLRC
    UK U Southampton
    **UK BBSRC
    **UK ESRC
    **UK MRC
    *UK U Southampton ECS
    **UK Wellcome Trust
    USA Case Western
    USA NIH
    USA U Kansas

If your university or research institutions or research funding agency
has an Open Access Self-Archiving policy,
please register it in ROARMAP:
    http://www.eprints.org/openaccess/policysignup/sign.php
and register your institutional repository (IR) in ROAR:
    http://archives.eprints.org/?action=add

You can track the growth of the number and nature of OA policies in
ROARMAP and the growth in the number and size of IRs in ROAR.

Stevan Harnad

AMERICAN SCIENTIST OPEN ACCESS FORUM:
A complete Hypermail archive of the ongoing discussion of providing
open access to the peer-reviewed research literature online (1998-2005)
is available at:
http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/
        To join or leave the Forum or change your subscription address:
http://amsci-forum.amsci.org/archives/American-Scientist-Open-Access-Forum.html
        Post discussion to:
        american-scientist-open-access-forum@amsci.org

UNIVERSITIES: If you have adopted or plan to adopt an institutional
policy of providing Open Access to your own research article output,
please describe your policy at:
        http://www.eprints.org/signup/sign.php

UNIFIED DUAL OPEN-ACCESS-PROVISION POLICY:
    BOAI-1 ("green"): Publish your article in a suitable toll-access journal
            http://romeo.eprints.org/
OR
    BOAI-2 ("gold"): Publish your article in a open-access journal if/when
            a suitable one exists.
            http://www.doaj.org/
AND
    in BOTH cases self-archive a supplementary version of your article
            in your institutional repository.
            http://www.eprints.org/self-faq/
            http://archives.eprints.org/
            http://openaccess.eprints.org/