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Draft Oxford strategic plan includes green OA University of Oxford: Strategic Plan 2008–2009 to 2012–2013, Oxford Gazette, January 30, 2008. (Thanks to Colin Steele.) Excerpt:
Comment. This is very promising. It's too early to say that Oxford is considering an OA mandate. But the "strategy" is to "ensure" the dissemination of the university's research output, and the draft proposal is to use the institutional repository for "selected" parts of that research output. It could be a mandate, however, and the "selected" parts could include peer-reviewed journal manuscripts. The proposal is part of a consultation, and Oxford-connected friends of OA should make their views known:
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