Concordia opens access to its research output - Concordia Journal - Concordia University - Montreal, Quebec, Canada

"After a wide-ranging discussion involving faculty from across the university, Senate passed a resolution requiring all Concordia researchers to either deposit their peer-reviewed articles in Spectrum, the university’s institutional repository, or to indicate their reasons for not doing so....At the previous Senate meeting in March, Provost David Graham said, “I believe deeply in the principles involved. I feel that we owe it to ourselves, our peers and the public to make research available.” He added, “all the research we do, except for contracts with private industry, all our grants and salaries are due to public funds.” ..."