The University of Namibia Senate is considering a very progressive OA policy written by the University Library. The policy proposal calls on the university to launch an open-access, OAI-compliant institutional repository; sign the Declaration of Institutional Commitment to OA; encourage its faculty to provide OA to their research articles through OA journals, the new institutional repository, or both; base performance reviews for faculty on work deposited in the institutional repository; hold 1-2 day seminar to teach faculty how to use the repository and why it is important; and ask librarians to teach faculty about benefits of OA to themselves and to the university. Kudos to the UNam Library for drafting the policy. (Thanks to Barbara Kirsop.)
Posted by
Peter Suber at 11/01/2004 11:54:00 AM.
The open access movement:
Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature
on the internet. Making it available free of charge and
free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
Removing the barriers to serious research.
I recommend the OA tracking project (OATP) as the best way to stay on top of new OA developments. You can read the OATP feed on a blog-like web page or subscribe to it by RSS, email, or Twitter. You can also help build the feed by tagging new developments you encounter.
