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Dutch university launches temporary OA journal fund The Delft University of Technology has launched a fund to help faculty pay publication fees at fee-based OA journals. From its announcement (July 1, 2008):
From the fund page (English version):
Comment. I applaud this support for OA. But I'll add that any university willing to pay these fees should also be willing to adopt a policy to encourage or require OA archiving for the research output of the institution. The two strategies are compatible and complementary. Delft signed the Berlin Declaration, runs an institutional repository, and has hosted a useful wiki devoted to OA since April 2007. But I don't believe it has yet adopted a strong OA policy for its own research output, for example, as Harvard and 20+ other universities around the world have done. |