The University of Kansas has become the first US University to adopt
a university-wide open-access self-archiving policy. The policy is
registered and described at:
The University of Kansas OA policy is the culmination of many years
of relentless effort on the part of the Executive Vice Chancellor and
Provost, David E. Shulenburger:
That makes it 12 registered institutional policies to date (including
CERN as well as France's mega-institutions: CNRS and INRIA, and soon
also INRA). For the US's AAU universities, that's now 1 down, 61 to go!
(My own personal hope is that AAU number 2 will be Indiana University,
where I lobbied so hard this past week:
UNIVERSITIES: If you have adopted or plan to adopt an institutional
policy of providing Open Access to your own research article output,
please describe your policy at:
http://www.eprints.org/signup/sign.php
UNIFIED DUAL OPEN-ACCESS-PROVISION POLICY:
BOAI-1 ("green"): Publish your article in a suitable toll-access journal
http://romeo.eprints.org/
OR
BOAI-2 ("gold"): Publish your article in a open-access journal if/when
a suitable one exists.
http://www.doaj.org/
AND
in BOTH cases self-archive a supplementary version of your article
in your institutional repository.
http://www.eprints.org/self-faq/ http://archives.eprints.org/ Received on Thu Apr 07 2005 - 22:13:39 BST
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