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http://library.cern.ch/HEPLW/4/papers/1/

High Energy Physics Libraries Webzine - HEP Libraries Webzine Issue 4 / June 2001

How and Why To Free All Refereed Research From Access- and Impact-Barriers Online, Now

Stevan Harnad, Les Carr, Tim Brody

Abstract
Researchers publish their findings in order to make an impact on research, not in order to sell their words. Access-tolls are barriers to research impact. Authors can now free their refereed research papers from all access tolls immediately by self-archiving them on-line in their own institution's Eprint Archives. Free eprints.org software creates Archives compliant with the Open Archives Initiative metadata-tagging Protocol OAI 1.0. These distributed institutional Archives are interoperable and can hence be harvested into global "virtual" archives, citation-linked and freely navigable by all. Self-archiving should enhance research productivity and impact as well as providing powerful new ways of monitoring and measuring it....


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