With thanks to CARL for this news:
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April 22, 2010: Concordia University opens its research findings to
the world
Concordia University’s academic community has passed a landmark
Senate Resolution on Open Access that encourages all of its faculty
and students to make their peer-reviewed research and creative
output freely accessible via the internet. Concordia is the first
major university in Canada where faculty have given their
overwhelming support to a concerted effort to make the full results
of their research universally available. In the specific case of
scholarly articles, the resolution requires all faculty members to
deposit an electronic copy into the Concordia University digital
repository along with non-exclusive permission to preserve and
freely disseminate it.
“Concordians have, once again, found a way to share their innovative
findings and creativity with communities the world over”, says
Judith Woodsworth, President and Vice-Chancellor of Concordia. “As
befits its role as host of the Congress of the Humanities and Social
Sciences next month, our university is now leading the way on this
year’s Congress theme: Connected Understanding/le savoir branché.”
Gerald Beasley, Concordia’s University Librarian, was instrumental
in the campus-wide dialogue on open access that began more than a
year ago. “I am delighted that Senate voted to support the
recommendations of all four Faculty Councils and the Council of the
School of Graduate Studies. There are only a handful of precedents
in North America for the kind of leadership that Concordia faculty
have demonstrated by their determination to make publicly-funded
research available to all rather than just the minority able to
afford the rapidly rising subscription costs of scholarly databases,
books and journals.”
This past year, Concordia launched Spectrum, an open access digital
repository that continues to grow beyond its initial 6,000
dissertations submitted at Concordia, and at its predecessors Sir
George Williams University and Loyola College. The Senate Resolution
encourages all of Concordia’s researchers to deposit their research
and creative work in Spectrum.
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Jennifer McLennan
Director of Programs & Operations
SPARC
[email protected]
(202) 296-2296 x121
Fax: (202) 872-0884
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SPARC 2010 Digital Repositories Meeting
November 8 & 9 - Baltimore, MD
http://www.arl.org/sparc/media/09-0223.shtml
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Open Access Week 2010
October 18 - 24. Everywhere.
http://www.openaccessweek.org
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http://www.arl.org/sparc
