[1] In October 2006 the French Universities, Grandes Ecoles, and research organisations (including CEMAGREF, CIRAD, CNRS, INRA, INRIA, INSERM,the PASTEUR Institute and IRD) signed a draft agreement on adopting a common online deposit platform for all French research publications and scientific writings. This common platform is based on the CCSD's HAL software.
[2] INRA's Institutional bibliographic database PRODINRA will soon be an Institutional Repository. It will then able to communicate and feed into HAL directly.To accompany the implementation of its Institutional Repository PRODINRA, INRA's Scientific Information Directorate commissioned a study on self-archiving practice, "Open Archives: Towards A Deposit Mandate?" by Dominique L'hostis & Pascal Aventurier. The study is a synthesis of the information on existing implementations, researcher practices and the role of institutions.
The study is accessible at Archivesic [here] and at Prodinra [here].
A remark: The PRODINRA database contains 100 000 bibliographic references (metadata) for publications by INRA researchers, with a growth rate of 5000 per year. If INRA adds to PRODINRA the "EMAIL EPRINT REQUEST" button (see its explanation in the report) it will make it possible for INRA users to request and INRA authors to provide immediate free access.
This is not yet Open Access, but for researcher purposes, it is almost as fast, and almost as effective, during the first year of new published findings.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 12/17/2006 08:37:00 PM.
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.
