A new open access policy in international development - BioMed Central blog

abernard102@gmail.com 2015-07-20

Summary:

The International Development Research Centre (IDRC) is a Canadian Crown Corporation that supports science in developing countries. Our vision is knowledge, innovation, and solutions to improve the lives of people in the developing world ... At IDRC, I led a team in the development of our new OA policy, which comes into force today. The policy contains five key provisions, which were designed to ensure openness by default, consistency across our research outputs, flexibility for our grantees, and scientific rigour. Under the new policy: Project outputs will be made accessible free of charge to the end-user; Authors are encouraged to publish books and articles as open access. If not possible, the outputs must be uploaded to an OA repository within 12 months of publication; Grey literature (technical reports, theses, workshop reports, etc.) must be placed in the open, IDRC Digital Library; All project outputs will be made available under the Creative Commons (CC BY) licence; and Research proposals submitted to IDRC must include an open access dissemination plan ..."

Link:

http://blogs.biomedcentral.com/bmcblog/2015/07/20/new-open-access-policy-international-development/?utm_content=buffere1b76&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

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oa.new oa.comment oa.idrc oa.canada oa.development oa.policies oa.green oa.gold oa.books oa.grey oa.copyright oa.licensing oa.cc oa.repositories oa.libre oa.journals

Date tagged:

07/20/2015, 12:00

Date published:

07/20/2015, 08:00