TY - GEN ID - cogprints1640 UR - http://cogprints.org/1640/ A1 - Harnad, Stevan TI - How and Why To Free All Refereed Research From Access- and Impact-Barriers Online, Now Y1 - 2001/06// N2 - 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. AV - public KW - refereed journals KW - electronic publishing KW - Open Archives Initiative ER -