Swiss National Strategy on Open Access

"In a letter dated 4 December 2015, the State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation (hereinafter SERI) commissioned swissuniversities to elaborate, with the support of the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF), a national strategy for Open Access to publications (hereinafter OA). In particular, the SERI insisted on the need for:

• Promotion of OA as an overriding goa
• Cost transparency for public funds
• Coordination among stakeholders, especially higher education institutions and their libraries

This national OA strategy was formulated by a representative working group led by swissuniversities and was adopted by the plenary assembly of swissuniversities on 31 January 2017."