Stockholm University has decided to sign the Berlin Declaration and do something with deposits in its institutional repository. But I can't tell from the Swedish announcement whether it will require deposits or merely encourage them.
I'm already trying to get human help with the translation. But in the meantime, here's Systran's machine translation, which leaves the key question obscure:
On Stockholm's universities, a workgroup with representatives has from the four faculties and University Library a left letter to the headmaster with proposals to new policy concerning handling of Open Access publication. Headmaster Kåre Bremer has the 29/6 taken decisions on the basis of the workgroup's recommendations to sign the Berlin Declaration and to advocate that the researchers in possibly anxious deposits a copy of each published scientific article in the university's digital archives. More information: Letter from the workgroup for Open Access wide Stockholm's universities
Update. Here's an unofficial statement of the new policy from Ingegerd Rabow. (Thanks, Ingegerd!)
The Vice Chancellor's decision for Stockholm University says that
Through their prefects/equivalents institutions from 2007 are responsible for making bibliographic data available in the university publication database
This registration shall cover all publications related to the teacher's/researcher´s employment at the university. This includes scientific/scholarly publishing and publishing within the framework of the cooperation with the surrounding society (i..e popular science, articles in the daily press)
Researchers as far as possible deposit a copy of each published article in the university digital archive.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 8/30/2006 09:35:00 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.
