KAUST adopts Open Access policy

" ... This summer KAUST became one of the first university's in the region to adopt an Open Access policy. In what is seen as an advancement in scholarly communication the Open Access policy is intended to give KAUST a means through which to make published, scholarly articles authored by the University's researchers available publically and in a timely fashion. The purpose of the public archive is to disseminate the results of research conducted by the faculty and other university researchers as widely as possible and to improve the visibility of articles for researchers ...