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Open Access, Part II

Jan Novak, Associate Director jan.novak@law.csuohio.edu | December 19, 2006 - 10:24

Earlham College Philosophy Professor Peter Suber, one of the most respected leaders of the Open Access movement, wishes to post this comment on yesterday’s blog entry, to make clear the critical difference between self-publishing and self-archiving:

Depositing work in an open-access repository should be called self-archiving, not self-publishing. It's not at all like vanity publishing with the stigma washed off. Self-archiving is about providing open access to peer-reviewed research, not about bypassing peer review. The vast majority of self-archived articles are preprints, which are stages on the way to peer-reviewed publication, or postprints, which have already been published in peer-reviewed journals.

Professor Suber is Senior Researcher for the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC) and author of the SPARC Open Access Newsletter. Sponsored by the Association of Research Libraries, SPARC’s mission is to foster the development of systems to disseminate research in the networked environment. Visit the SPARC website for more information, including its new section on Author’s Rights. The SPARC Author’s Addendum offers a form for authors to use to retain rights in their published works, including the right to post in an online archive

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