Trinity College provides online access to its research
Connotea Imports 2012-07-31
Summary:
"Trinity College [Dublin] has adopted a policy similar to that of MIT, Harvard and Stanford to make its scholarly articles available to the public for free online, in a move aimed at broadening access to its research and scholarship....Under the new policy, faculty authors give TCD non-exclusive permission to disseminate their journal articles and other scholarly publications for open access through TARA, Trinity’s Access to Research Archive. The policy covers all scholarly articles, peer-reviewed conference papers, reports and TCD research theses. The deposit of books, book chapters and datasets associated with published research is strongly encouraged. TCD's open access policy is the first such policy adopted by an Irish university....The new policy was approved unanimously at Trinity’s recent research committee meeting and will take immediate effect...."