Librarians at Sheffield Hallam University are reminding faculty of the benefits of depositing their peer-reviewed postprints in the institutional repository, SHURA (Sheffield Hallam University Research Archive). Excerpt:
...[SHURA] is a long-term project begun this year that makes peer-reviewed research from Sheffield Hallam University available online for free to everyone . It is intended to be a secure and permanent home for articles from all the disciplines at the university.
The open access movement is one that is becoming increasingly prominent and mainstream within academic publishing. Such archives greatly increase the visibility and impact of research: articles can now be easily found and accessed by researchers worldwide through Google Scholar and other search tools. Likewise, open access archives make it possible for you to access articles without being restricted to the contents of only those journals to which we subscribe. And as more institutions create their own open access archives, the publishing world is increasingly accepting it. Publishing in an archive is usually supplementary to publishing in a journal and many journals are happy for articles submitted to them to also be published in online archives, although within certain provisos....
Posted by
Peter Suber at 12/19/2007 10:19:00 AM.
The open access movement:
Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature
on the internet. Making it available free of charge and
free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
Removing the barriers to serious research.
I recommend the OA tracking project (OATP) as the best way to stay on top of new OA developments. You can read the OATP feed on a blog-like web page or subscribe to it by RSS, email, or Twitter. You can also help build the feed by tagging new developments you encounter.
