Peter Suber - Google+ - A national OA mandate for Ireland Excerpt: "Peer reviewed…

Excerpt: "Peer reviewed journal articles and other research outputs resulting in whole or in part from publicly-funded research should be deposited in an  Open Access repository and made publicly discoverable, accessible and re-usable as soon as possible and on an on-going basis....Authors shall deposit post-prints (or the publisher’s version if permitted) plus metadata of articles accepted for publication in peer-reviewed journals and international conference proceedings....Deposit should be made as soon as possible, ideally at the time of acceptance for publication, and no later than the date of formal publication....Researchers are encouraged to publish in Open Access  Journals but publishing through Open Access Journals is not necessary to comply with this Open Access policy...."

Comment: This is another policy to require green OA (deposit in an OA repository) rather than gold OA (submission to an OA journal). Hence, it's another rejection of the RCUK/Finch approach in the UK. The most recent example before this was the OA policy announced by European Medical Research Councils yesterday. This is a welcome trend.

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