---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "Tom Worthington" <tom.worthing...@tomw.net.au> Date: Nov 25, 2012 5:09 AM Subject: [OKFN-AU] Australian Government told to make open access research mandatory To: <okfn...@lists.okfn.org>
On Friday, Bernard Rentier, Rector, University of Liege, Belgium, told a meeting of senior academics and government officials how open access to research publications can become a routine part of government funded research. Professor Rentier was speaking at the Australian National University in Canberra on "Open Access to Scholarly Publications: A European Perspective", as part of a visiting Belgium delegation. He pointed out that open access was opposed by most publishers as it conflicted with their business model, whereas it fitted the university's business model. Within universities the researchers who create publications do not pay for them, the library does. Professor Rentier suggested the Liege Model could be adopted more widely. The university started creating a repository and a policy requiring authors to deposit their publications with it. He pointed out that it is difficult to get academics to comply with such a policy, but it was possible. One way is to incorporate this in the requirements for research grants: the researcher is required to agree to deposit their publication in the repository or they do not get a grant. See: http://openaccess.eprints.org/**index.php?/archives/853-The-** Liege-ORBi-model-Mandatory-**policy-without-rights-** retention-but-linked-to-**assessment-procedures.html<http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/853-The-Liege-ORBi-model-Mandatory-policy-without-rights-retention-but-linked-to-assessment-procedures.html> -- Tom Worthington FACS CP, TomW Communications Pty Ltd. t: 0419496150 PO Box 13, Belconnen ACT 2617, Australia http://www.tomw.net.au Liability limited by a scheme approved under Professional Standards Legislation Adjunct Lecturer, Research School of Computer Science, Australian National University http://cs.anu.edu.au/courses/**COMP7310/<http://cs.anu.edu.au/courses/COMP7310/> ______________________________**_________________ OKFN-AU mailing list okfn...@lists.okfn.org http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/**listinfo/okfn-au<http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/okfn-au> Unsubscribe: http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/**options/okfn-au<http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/options/okfn-au>
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