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has just announced yet another very welcome and timely Green OA
Self-Archiving Mandate, this time from the Swiss National Science
Foundation (SNF) (Switzerland's second OA mandate: U. Zuerich was
the first).
http://www.snf.ch/D/NewsPool/Seiten/news_070809_OpenAccess.aspx
That makes 14 University Mandates and 15 Funder Mandates adopted, and
more on the way.
http://www.eprints.org/openaccess/policysignup/
The SNF mandate has only one (very easily remediable) bug: It allows
publisher
embargoes, which is OK, but it should make it clear that the embargo
is only allowed for the date of setting access to the deposit as Open
Access, not for the date of the *deposit* itself, which should be
immediately
upon acceptance for publication, with access, in case of embargo, set
as Closed Access. That way, each SNF author's Institutional Repository's
"Fair Use" Button can take care of all would-be users' access needs
during any Closed Access embargo period via semi-automated email eprint
requests to the author:
http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/71-guid.html
http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/274-guid.html
From Peter Suber's Open Access News
(Thanks to Susanne Goetker.)
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Swiss National Science Foundation adopts an OA mandate
Yesterday the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF) announced
an OA mandate to take effect on September 1, Open Access: Der SNF
erlaesst Weisung fuer die Umsetzung.
http://www.snf.ch/D/NewsPool/Seiten/news_070809_OpenAccess.aspx
The policy requires OA archiving for the results of SNF-funded
research. Grantees may deposit their work in institutional or
disciplinary repositories, and must apparently respect any embargo
imposed by their publisher. The SNF does not have its own repository
and does not apparently plan to launch one.
The SNF encourages without requiring publication in an OA journal, and
at least sometimes will pay the publication fees at fee-based OA
journals.
Comment. Kudos to the SNF. This will be a boon to Swiss
research-authors and to all research-users. It also comes at a good
time, when both the US and the EU are considering OA mandates, and
adds to the growing momentum for public funding agencies to mandate
open access for publicly-funded research.
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