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Our Cultural Commonwealth, the final version of the report by the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Commission on Cyberinfrastructure for the Humanities & Social Sciences, released December 13, 2006. (Thanks to if:book.) From the Executive Summary:
From the body of the report:
Comment. This is a superb report making exactly the right recommendations: mandate OA, especially for publicly-funded research, lobby for it, support it within universities, support FRPAA, and join the OCA. Universities that agree needn't wait for funding agencies or governments to act; they can mandate OA to their own research output right now. Spread the word. For background, see my blog posts on earlier drafts of the ACLS report. |