To Open Canadian Universities' Minds, Inform Them What They Need To Do

Michael's Geist's article "Canadian Universities Too Closed Minded on Open Access" is timely and welcome, but it is nonspecific about just what it is that Canadian universities are closed minded about (or what they can do about it). For Canada, Open Access is about providing Open Access to Canada's own research output, so that all potential users worldwide can access, use, apply and build on it, not just those whose universities can afford to subscribe to the journal in which it happens to be published -- and so that the findings of the Canadian researchers who did the research, and their universities, and the research itself, can receive the full usage and impact that they deserve. The way to make all this happen is for Canadian universities to mandate that the final draft of every research article their researchers publish, regardless of which journal it is published in, must also be deposited in the university's Open Access Institutional Repositories, to make the research freely accessible to all users online ("Green OA").