The European University Association’s Working Group on Open Access
released its recommendations at the end of March:
The Working Group recommendations (below) are based upon the following
core premises: the university’s role and responsibility as guardian of
research knowledge as a public good”; the results of publicly funded
research should be publicly available as soon s possible; and quality
assurance peer review processes are preconditions for scholarly
publishing and therefore are essential to be maintained in the digital
publishing mode. … Among the recommendations are these for university
leadership:
1. Universities should develop institutional policies and strategies
that foster the availability of their quality controlled research
results (in the form of research papers and other outputs) for the
broadest possible range of users, maximising their visibility,
accessibility and scientific impact.
2. The basic approach for achieving this should be the creation of an
institutional repository or participation in a shared repository. …
3. University institutional policies should require that their
researchers deposit (selfarchive) their scientific publications in their
institutional repository upon acceptance for publication. …
4. University policies should include copyright in the institutional
intellectual property rights (IPR) management. …
5. University institutional policies should explore also how resources
could be found and made available to researchers for author fees to
support the emerging “author pays model” of open access.
(Source: Transforming Scholarly Communication)
Recommendations
http://www.eua.be/fileadmin/user_upload/files/Policy_Positions/Recommendations_Open_Access_adopted_by_the_EUA_Council_on_26th_of_March_2008.pdf
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