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From the European University Association Newsletter about the EUA
Status: O
Message-ID: <dummy7607882765_at_invented.ecs.soton.ac.uk>
Spring Conference at the University of Barcelona
http://www.eua.be/index.php?id=48&no_cache=1&tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=518&tx_t
tnews%5BbackPid%5D=1
[with thanks to Prof. Bernard Rentier]:
http://recteur.blogs.ulg.ac.be/
Universities need to do more to develop institutional
policies and strategies that increase access to their
peer-reviewed research results to the widest range of
users, to maximise the impact and visibility of
university research.
This is one of the key recommendations published by EUA?s
Working Group on Open Access, which aim to raise
awareness of the importance of the open access issue
within the university community, both in terms of its
impact upon the research process but also its financial
implications for university libraries.
EUA is recommending that universities across Europe
[each] set up an ?institutional repository? (or take part
in a shared repository) as a key first step to achieving
this goal. These repositories should be established and
managed according to current best practices and policies
developed by universities should ensure that researchers
deposit their publications in the repository on
acceptance of publication. Embargoes should only apply to
the date of open access provision and not the date of
deposit.
University policies should also take better account of
copyright and the institutional intellectual property
rights (IPR) management.
The recommendations were published following a meeting of
the EUA Council, which took place before the opening of
the EUA Spring Conference at the University of Barcelona.
The working group?s recommendations are based on the core
premises: the university?s role and responsibility as
guardian of research knowledge as a ?public good? and
that the results of publicly funded research should be
publicly available as soon as possible; and that quality
assurance peer review processes are pre-conditions for
scholarly publishing.
Please click here to read the fullrecommendations:
http://www.eua.be/fileadmin/user_upload/files/Policy_Positi
ons/Recommendations_Open_Access_adopted_by_the_EUA_Council_on_26th_of_March_
2008.pdf
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