The Norwegian Research Council has adopted an OA mandate. (Thanks to Jan Erik Frantsvåg.) The full text of the policy has not yet been released, but OpenAccess.no has a two-sentence summary. Here's the summary in Google's English:
Research Council of Norway adopted 28 January principles for open access to scientific publications. Research will require that the articles that are a result of funding from the research, should be made available through self-archiving or Open Access publishing to the extent not in conflict with the publishing rights.
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Kudos to all involved. As the policy moves toward implementation, I hope the Research Council can close the loophole for resisting publishers, as the Wellcome Trust, NIH, UK MRC, and other funders have done. (For details on how to do it, see #10 in the article I published on Monday.)
Also see our past posts on the consultations leading up to the NRC policy.
Update (2/6/09). The Norwegian Research Council has released an announcement and the text of the policy. (Thanks to Jan Erik Frantsvåg.) Both are in Norwegian. Because the policy is a PDF, I can't link to a machine translation. The announcement is in HTML, but for some reason Google Translate chokes on it at the moment. Here's the link to Google's English in case the problem is merely temporary.
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.
