Peter Millington at Nottingham University's Centre for Research Communications has just published recent analysis of self-archiving policies of journals indexed by the Sherpa-ROMEO service. An impressive, and myth-busting, 60% of journals allow immediate archiving of peer-reviewed articles, and after embargoes have lapsed, this rises dramatically, to 80%. In all, taking into account special requirements by publishers and embargo periods that vary from 3 months to 5 years, 94% of journals do allow self-archiving of the peer-reviewed article. All good news for those of us hitting the advocacy trail at the moment.
The full article can be found here on the Sherpa Services Blog.
Software is also being developed to allow documents to be self-archived in bulk, .... Eprints are the digital texts of peer-reviewed research articles, before and after ... of peer review, hence acceptance for publication by a peer-reviewed journal, ..... In short, no rational deterrent at all to immediate self-archiving from concerns. The Student Research Journal
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