Funders Should Mandate Institutional Deposit (and, if desired, central harvest)
Connotea Imports 2012-07-31
Summary:
Summary: The most effective and natural way to ensure that all institutions -- the universal providers of all research, funded and unfunded, in all fields -- provide open access (OA) to all of their peer-reviewed research (funded and unfunded, in all fields) is for both funders and institutions to mandate cooperative, convergent deposit, by the author, in the author's own institutional repository, rather than competitive, divergent institutional-and/or-institution-external deposit by authors-and/or-publishers.