Excerpt from Peter Suber's Open Access News http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2004_08_08_fosblogarchive.html#a109240384557714980
The Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL) http://www.carl-abrc.ca/ has written a Brief to the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, June 29, 2004. http://www.carl-abrc.ca/projects/sshrc/transformation-brief.pdf The brief recommends ways in which Canada's Social Science and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) http://www.sshrc.ca/ might transform itself, especially to promote new and more effective forms of scholarly communication. It recommends (p. 4) that the SSHRC sign the Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI), http://www.soros.org/openaccess/ "work actively" toward the BOAI's goals, allocate a percentage of each SSHRC research grant to OA journal publication fees, consider requiring SSHRC grant recipients to deposit their work in OA archives, http://www.eprints.org/signup/sign.php and work with other Granting Councils to develop a Canadian national policy for open access to taxpayer-funded research. (Thanks to Colin Steele.) Posted by Peter Suber at 9:16 AM.
