From Open Access News Blog http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2004_07_04_fosblogarchive.html#a108908328421964239
Another major Australian OA initiative Australia's National Scholarly Communications Forum (NSCF) http://www.humanities.org.au/NSCF/overview.htm and Department of Education, Science and Training (DEST) http://www.dest.gov.au/ will work together to widen access to scholarly communication in three ways: 1. "the encouragement of institutional/subject repositories, including the adoption of university-wide policies to collect and archive institutional research output, for example in connection with RAE exercises;" 2. "the adoption of further open access mechanisms, such as open access journals and not-for-profit electronic publishing. Best practice to reflect established mechanisms, such as peer review but adopting flexible criteria within the digital environment for evaluation in relation to promotion and tenure; and" 3. "collaboration with relevant international bodies, such as the Wellcome Trust, the Max Planck Institute, OECD, UK Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) and the Open Society Institute (OSI), on global open access initiatives." For details, see Malcolm Gillies and Colin Steele, Outcomes of the Round Table on Changing Research Practices in the Digital Information and Communication Environment, NSCF, June 1, 2004, http://www.humanities.org.au/NSCF/NSCF%20Outcomes%20Final.pdf a report of the outcomes of the conference, Changing Research Practices in the Digital Information and Communication Environment (Canberra, June 1, 2004). http://www.humanities.org.au/NSCF/current.htm
