As announced in Peter Suber's Open Access News
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2007_04_01_fosblogarchive.html#117543267986557282
on 1 April 2007 two UK Research Councils, PPARC and CCLRC merged into a
single Council: Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC)
http://www.so.stfc.ac.uk/rgh/rghDisplay2.aspx?m=s&s=64
PPARC had already mandated Green OA Self-Archiving; CCLRC had "strongly
encouraged" it. STFC mandates it.
That means that instead of 5 out of 8 UK Research Councils mandating OA, 5
out of 7 now mandate OA.
Worldwide, we have reached 23 Green OA Self-Archiving Mandates adopted (9
institutional, 3 departmental, 11 funder mandates, including the European
Research Council) plus 6 more proposed (1 multi-institutional, 5 funder
mandates), two of them (FRPAA in the US and EC A1 in Europe) big ones:
http://www.eprints.org/openaccess/policysignup/
Stevan Harnad
Received on Sun Apr 01 2007 - 17:11:17 BST