(Via Peter Suber's OA News ):
UK's 21st Green OA Mandate, Planet's 62nd
Engineering & Physical Sciences Research Council (ESPRC)
(UK funder-mandate)
http://www.epsrc.ac.uk/
Institution's/Department's OA Eprint Archives
http://roar.eprints.org/ http://roar.eprints.org/
Institution's/Department's OA Self-Archiving Policy
http://www.epsrc.ac.uk/AboutEPSRC/AccessInfo/ROAccess.htm
The independent study commissioned by Research Councils UK was
completed in late 2008. The findings from the study are now being
taken forward by the Cross-Council Research Outputs Group and will be
used to inform future policy on open access. EPSRC Council agreed at
its December meeting to mandate open access publication, but that
academics should be able to choose whether they use the green option
(ie, self-archiving in an on-line repository) or gold option (ie,
pay-to-publish in an open access journal). Further details will be
published in spring 2009.
Received on Tue Jan 27 2009 - 03:04:23 GMT