Stevan Harnad reports that the University of Zurich Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology has adopted a policy to require faculty to deposit their refereed articles in the institution's OA repository. From Stevan's announcement:
The University of Zurich has just registered its Institutional Self-Archiving Policy....The 14th institution with a [self-archiving] policy, Zurich is the 4th (after Southampton, Queensland University of Technology, and CERN) with a mandate rather than merely a recommendation. This is also the second mandate in a Swiss institution.
(PS: Kudos to all involved at the University of Zurich. By my count, however, Zurich is the fifth university with an OA mandata, not the fourth. Portugal's University of Minho has had such a policy since late 2004.)
Posted by
Peter Suber at 10/12/2005 08:38:00 AM.
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.
