This suggests that CSIC has some kind of OA policy for CSIC-funded research. But I don't know what it is and my Spanish is too weak to let me explore the site for clues. If you know or discover the CSIC policy, please drop me a line or post an English summary to SOAF.
Update (1/21/08). Gavin Baker reports that the CSIC appears not to be operating under an OA mandate. (Thanks, Gavin.) Here's his English-language paraphrase of a section of the Digital.CSIC FAQ:
How are documents added? The author himself will deposit his documents and be responsible for complying with publisher policies; also, the CSIC technical office can deposit documents with the author's permission. The key is the last sentence: "The Digital.CSIC Technical Office is responsible for administering Digital.CSIC and requires the permission of the author to keep, to copy, to change the format if necessary, and to distribute the material."
When an author deposits an unpublished work in an institutional repository, he authorizes the later use of that work under the terms of a Creative Commons [BY-NC-ND] license.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 1/21/2008 02:42:00 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.
