Simon Fraser University takes steps to support open access publishing | Vancouver, Canada | Straight.com
Connotea Imports 2012-07-31
Summary:
"In the past few months, Simon Fraser University has taken steps to support open-access publishing of scholarly articles. SFU's senate library committee endorsed in January an open-access strategy for the university library. In February, SFU created an open-access fund to support researchers at the university who publish articles in open-access journals....SFU faculty, staff, and graduate students can each claim up to $10,000 per fiscal year from the fund to pay for these article processing charges....The SFU library's strategy notes that passing an open-access mandate at the university would require the approval of the SFU senate. The strategy states: 'While passing such a mandate would be a trailblazing step for SFU, further investigation, discussion and campus engagement would be required at SFU before such a step could be taken with confidence of passing through Senate.' ..."