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Hong Kong decides to encourage OA, not to require it At its June 2007 meeting, the Hong Kong Research Grants Council (RGC) decided not to mandate OA for RGC-funded research. However, it did encourage publicly-funded Hong Kong universities to encourage OA. Here's the relevant part of the minutes of its June 2007 meeting, which were sent to all Hong Kong university vice-chancellors and presidents on August 6, 2007. The "UGC institutions" are the eight universities supported with public funds by the University Grants Committee. I thank the RGC for permission to reproduce this paragraph:
Update. See Stevan Harnad's comment:
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