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
Received on Tue Jul 06 2004 - 15:11:40 BST