Open-Access and Institutional Repositories in Fire Literature

From the abstract: "At the National Research Council, the Institute for Research in Construction ensures that all fire-related literature produced is stored in an Institutional Repository and posted on the Web in a freely available manner." From the body of the (TA) article: "For researchers to participate there has to be an incentive to ensure that all research written at NRC-IRC makes its way to the NRC-IRC Publications Database. Within NRC-IRC’s current system, the motivation is quite substantial. When a researcher is eligible for promotion, only official bibliographies generated from the NRC-IRC Publications Database are accepted for review by the promotion committee...."