The University of Ottawa is the first Canadian university to adopt a comprehensive open access program that supports free and unrestricted access to scholarly research.
The University’s new program includes:
a commitment to make the University’s scholarly publications available online at no charge through the University’s repository, uO Research;
an author fund to help researchers defray open access fees charged by publishers;
a fund to support the creation of digital educational materials organized as courses and available to everyone online at no charge ;
support for the University of Ottawa Press’s commitment to publishing a collection of open access books; and
a research grant to support further research on the open access movement.
For more information on the University of Ottawa’s open access program, visit [ink].
Comments.
Although Michael Geist describes the strategy as including a mandate, it doesn't appear to. The plan doesn't seem to mention either a commitment/obligation to self-archive or a university-wide license. (If I'm wrong, please let me know.)
The implementation of the COPE fund differs from those of Harvard, etc.: most notably, it allows funds to be used for hybrid OA journals.
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.
