** Cross-Posted **
OpenAIRE is a central harvester of peer-reviewed research from
European institutional repositories (IRs).
In order to ensure compliance with the forthcoming EC Green OA
self-archiving mandate it is important that all European IRs should
A compliance-endurance mechanism is what
NIH is now beginning
to implement too, 5 years after it first adopted its Green OA mandate.
But the NIH approach -- direct institution-external deposit by fundee or
publisher, in PubMed Central -- is not a mechanism that will scale to
other funder mandates -- and especially not to institutional mandates.
The reason is that the NIH is a central-deposit mandate and hence
fails to mobilize the funder's natural partner in ensuring grant
compliance, the one best placed and most motivated to do it:
the researcher's own institution.
OpenAIRE compliance is hence also important to provide a model for
mandates and best practice for research funding agencies worldwide,
to ensure that institutional and funder Green OA mandates are
Deposit institutionally (once only) and harvest centrally
(to as manyfunder-based or subject-based repositories
as desired)
OpenAIRE-compliance plugin.
It is very important that institutions should activate, implement and
document the feature, to make sure their researchers use it
and know how to use it. (It's just a matter of adding the requisite
metadata about the research project and funder.)
for the purposes of national research assessment (
REF).
All of this pre-planning is important not only for EC-funded
research, but for RCUK-funded research too, in order to help
for its Green OA self-archiving component.
The message below is forwarded with permission from
Stevan Harnad
Begin forwarded message:
Subject: RE: Posting about OpenAIRE to GOAL
The OpenAIRE infrastructure will lead researchers to their institutional repository
if there is one (registered on OpenDOAR, the information source we used for that
functionality). If that repository is OpenAIRE compatible, after depositing his papers
there the researcher doesn’t have to do anything else.
If the repository is not compatible, then after depositing the researcher must
“declare/claim” that the publication is to be aggregated.
If the researcher doesn’t have a repository to archive, OpenAIRE offers an
“orphan repository” where papers can be deposited directly.