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.' ..."

Link:

http://www.straight.com/article-300330/vancouver/simon-fraser-university-takes-steps-support-open-access-publishing

From feeds:

Open Access Tracking Project (OATP) ยป Connotea Imports

Tags:

oa.new oa.gold oa.mandates oa.green oa.fees oa.funds oa.canada oa.repositories oa.policies oa.journals oa.deliberations

Authors:

petersuber

Date tagged:

07/31/2012, 19:06

Date published:

03/28/2010, 08:13