New New Spanish Funder's Open Access mandate - Comunidad Madrid

2009-03-27 Thread Eloy Rodrigues
[On behalf of Alicia López Medina]   Madrid Autonomous Community of Spain mandates Open Access for its funded research results.   (... )researchers beneficiary of the grant programme must facilitate open access to their research results in the institutional repository of their institution or

Re: Central 'Request a copy' address?

2009-03-27 Thread Stevan Harnad
[ The following text is in the WINDOWS-1252 character set. ] [ Your display is set for the iso-8859-1 character set. ] [ Some characters may be displayed incorrectly. ] I completely agree with Charles: The quintessence of the functionality and legality of the email-eprint-request

One more of Richard Poynder's revealing and insightf ul OA Interviews, this time of France's first and foremost O A champion, H�l�ne Bosc.on

2009-03-27 Thread Stevan Harnad
One more of Richard Poynder's revealing and insightful OA Interviews, this time of France's first and foremost OA champion, Hélène Bosc. The full interview is here.  Peter Suber, writes: This is another richly textured interview, unearthing details about the early history of OA, OA

Spain's 3rd and 4th Green OA Mandates, Planet's 71st and 72nd

2009-03-27 Thread Stevan Harnad
A second university mandate (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid) plus a second funder mandate (Madrid Autonomous Community) from Spain, raising the worldwide total of Green OA self-archiving mandates to 72! ¡Viva España!