Re: Mandating OA around the corner?

From: Stevan Harnad <harnad_at_ecs.soton.ac.uk>
Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2004 16:51:56 +0100

Excerpt from Peter Suber's Open Access News
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2004_08_08_fosblogarchive.html#a109240384557714980

The Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL)
http://www.carl-abrc.ca/
has written a Brief to the Social Sciences and Humanities Research
Council of Canada, June 29, 2004.
http://www.carl-abrc.ca/projects/sshrc/transformation-brief.pdf

The brief recommends ways in which Canada's Social Science and Humanities
Research Council (SSHRC)
http://www.sshrc.ca/
might transform itself, especially to promote new and more effective
forms of scholarly communication. It recommends (p. 4) that

    the SSHRC sign the Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI),
    http://www.soros.org/openaccess/

    "work actively" toward the BOAI's goals,

    allocate a percentage of each SSHRC research grant to
    OA journal publication fees,

    consider requiring SSHRC grant recipients to deposit
    their work in OA archives,
    http://www.eprints.org/signup/sign.php

    and work with other Granting Councils to develop a Canadian national
    policy for open access to taxpayer-funded research.

(Thanks to Colin Steele.)
Posted by Peter Suber at 9:16 AM.
Received on Fri Aug 13 2004 - 16:51:56 BST