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Tuesday, April 04, 2006

UQaM signs Berlin Declaration, adopts OA policy

As expected, the Université du Québec à Montréal has signed the Berlin Declaration on Open Acces to Knowledge, becoming the first North American university to do so. At the same time, it has adopted an OA policy. From today's announcement:
Berlin is a Declaration of principle. The next step is to put it into practice, which UQaM is likewise preparing to do shortly, by relaunching its Institutional Repository and it will soon be registering its institutional commitment in:
http://www.eprints.org/openaccess/policysignup/
http://www.eprints.org/openaccess/policysignup/sign.php
http://www.unites.uqam.ca/cnc/declaration.fr.html

PS: I'll blog the policy details as soon as they're available.