Alma Swan: UNESCO Open Access Policy Guidelines

abernard102@gmail.com 2012-04-06

Summary:

EXCERPTS: ...Policies can require ‘green’ Open Access by self-archiving but to preserve authors’ freedom to publish where they choose policies should only encourage ‘gold’ Open Access through publication in Open Access journals... Evidence has unequivocally demonstrated that to have real effect policies must be mandatory, whether institutional or funder policies.... Evidence shows that researchers are quite happy to be mandated to act in this way... The optimum arrangement, one that accommodates the needs of all stakeholders, and has the potential to collect the greatest amount of Open Access content, is for a network of institutional repositories to be the primary locus for deposit and for centralised, subject-specific collections to be created by harvesting the required content from that network of distributed repositories...

Link:

http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0021/002158/215863e.pdf

From feeds:

Open Access Tracking Project (OATP) » abernard102@gmail.com
Open Access Tracking Project (OATP) » Amsciforum

Tags:

oa.new oa.mandates alma swan unesco pep.oa pep.biblio oa.business_models oa.licensing oa.government oa.copyright oa.open_science oa.funders oa.benefits oa.unesco oa.encouragement oa.frpaa oa.libre oa.policies

Authors:

stevanharnad

Date tagged:

04/06/2012, 13:00

Date published:

04/06/2012, 09:06