Self Archiving

Self Archiving articles is becoming more popular around the world.  It improves accessibility to articles, increases their visibility and boosts the citations earned.  Please check the self-archiving policy to determine whether or not there are legal restrictions on the publication you wish to put on your homepage.

OpCit - Open Citation Project developed reference Linking and Citation Analysis for Open Archives

EPrints for Digital Repositories

BOAI: Budapest Open Access Initiative is a worldwide coordinated movement to make full-text online access to all peer-reviewed research free for all. Self-Archiving FAQ.

Paracite: Dynamic parsing of references and assisted web searching to find the full texts of those references.

CiteBase Citebase Search is a semi-autonomous citation index for the free, online research literature. It harvests pre- and post- prints (most author self-archived) from OAI-PMH compliant archives, parses and links their references and indexes the metadata in a search engine.
Citebase contains articles from physics, maths, information science, and (published only) biomedical papers.
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Self-Archiving : The practice of scholars putting their works online at institutional or individual OAI-compliant archives. Authors first put an unrefereed preprint into the archive. Then they submit the article to a peer-reviewed journal (print or electronic). If it is accepted and the author can negotiate the right to self-archive, then he or she puts the refereed and perhaps revised postprint into the archive. If it is accepted but the publisher does not permit self-archiving, then the author puts only the "corrigenda" (the differences between the online preprint and the published version of the article) into the archive. Also called eprint archiving.

Guide to the Open Access Movement

Open Access and Self-Archiving Links
By Stevan Harnad, The Cognitive Sciennce Centre(CSC) at University of Southampton.

OA Self-Archiving Policy: Federal Research Public Access Act (FRPAA)

For the origin of the idea of self-archiving, see the collection of historical emails collected into Scholarly Journals at the Crossroads (ed. Ann Okerson and James O'Donnell, ARL, 1994).