As authors of scientific papers we are under more and more pressure to make the results of our publicly-funded research available in open access form. This often includes manuscript copies hosted on institutional repositories. While it is easy to find resources hosted by the major journal publishers, finding the papers in these repositories is often not so easy and each one has to be found by searching individually using internet search engines.

I am proposing to address this issue by including links to these open access repositories on the reference pages of mipdatabase.com, but I need your help: Please e-mail me the web address of any institutional resource page(s) of your MIP papers so that additional links can be added to the database.  It would also be helpful if you could alert me to out-of-date links that may still be in the database. It may be in your interest to do this as open access to publications increases their visibility, raises the number of  citations and your h-index!

Thanks for any help you can offer!

Mike Whitcombe, SMI President and Webmaster