The University of Zurich, one of the handful of universities with an OA mandate for faculty research, now has a web page on OA in German and English. (Thanks to medinfo.) On it we learn that the university's IR, ZORA (Zurich Open Repository and Archive), officially launched on October 13, 2006. From the new page:
The University of Zurich was quick to recognise the importance of this movement and declared open access a strategic goal by formulating the following guidelines:
The University of Zurich requires their researchers to deposit a copy of all their published and refereed articles in the Institutional Repository of the University, if there are no legal objections.
The University of Zurich encourages and supports their authors to publish their research articles in open access journals where a suitable journal exists and provides the support to enable that to happen.
To achieve these goals there is a repository (Zurich Open Repository and Archive - ZORA), in which researchers of the University can present their publications. In addition, this website contains information for publishing with open access (overview: OA in brief).
Posted by
Peter Suber at 10/20/2006 01:04:00 PM.
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.
