Peter Suber, Self-archiving diary
Connotea Imports 2012-07-31
Summary:
"I have a confession to make. For as long as I've urged scholars to support OA, I've urged them to self-archive. But I wasn't systematic about doing it myself until last year. I'm not as guilty as I look. I did make all my work OA, with the exception of one 1998 book for which I don't yet have permission. In fact, I started making my work OA in the mid-1990's, about five years before I started serious OA activism. But I made these works OA on my personal web site. For most of the past 15 years, I knew that making them OA through a repository would be better, and I urged other scholars to make their work OA through repositories...."