Harvard Releases an Individual Open-Access License for Non-Faculty Scholars (24 October 2018) The Harvard Library Office for Scholarly Communication is pleased to announce the launch of a new open-access license for all Harvard authors of scholarly articles. All Harvard schools have open-access policies granting certain non-exclusive rights to the University. These policies were adopted by faculty votes, and allow…
(19 October 2017) EIFL will host workshops for open access (OA) working groups and librarians from three Myanmar universities that are adopting OA policies and setting up OA institutional repositories. The three universities – Yangon University of Economics, Yadanabon University and Yezin Agricultural University – will use the opportunity to finalize OA policy documents, ensure…
A platform for rapid author-led publication and open peer review of research funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (23 March 2017) Gates Open Research is a scholarly publishing platform that makes research funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation available quickly and in a format supporting research integrity, reproducibility and transparency. Its…
(5 July 2016) Supported by the European Commission (EC) under its 7th Framework Program, PASTEUR4OA (Open Access Policy Alignment Strategies for European Union Research) project aims to help Member Nations develop policies to ensure open access to publicly funded research output. As part of the project, a strong advocacy program has been developed. Over 50…
(16 June 2016) To assist in the development of efficient Open Access policies among research performing organizations and funders, the PASTEUR4OA project has produced Open Access Policy Guidelines for Research Performing Organizations. They provide the context, the process and a model policy (template) that will enable the institutions and funders to develop and implement their…
(22 October 2015) In October 2005 the Wellcome Trust became the first research funder to introduce a mandatory Open Access policy – requiring that all research outputs which arise from its funding must be made open access as soon as possible and in any event within six months of publication. To celebrate 10 years of…
(2 July 2015) SHERPA/FACT, the funders and author’s compliance tool, has been found to be more than 95% accurate when checking publisher policies against funder mandates for open access – significantly higher than even experienced repository managers. A study by the SHERPA/FACT advisory group compared the information provided by SHERPA/FACT with a control made up…
(7 April 2015) PASTEUR4OA reports on the policy-effectiveness exercise undertaken by the project in view of providing evidence to assist open access policy development. Basis of this work was the rebuilding of ROARMAP, the open access policy registry, which was carried out by the project. A new classification scheme was built, allowing to record and…
(26 March 2015) Research Councils UK (RCUK) has today published the first independent review of the implementation of the RCUK Policy on Open Access. Chaired by Professor Sir Bob Burgess, former University of Leicester Vice-Chancellor, the review received an excellent response from the research community, with over 85 submissions of written evidence highlighting how the…
(16 March 2015) EIFL – in association with the University of Mandalay, the University of Yangon and Yadanabon University – ran a series of seminars in February on ‘Open access: How to maximise the impact, efficiency and availability of your research’ as part of the EIFL eLibrary Myanmar project. Over 200 participants – Rectors, Pro-Rectors, Heads of…
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