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** Cross-Posted ** See also pertinent prior caveats:
"On Not Putting The Gold OA-Payment Cart Before The Green
OA-Provision Horse"
http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/630-guid.html
"Why Provide OA Funding Rather Than Providing OA?"
http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/422-guid.html
"To Open Canadian Universities' Minds, Inform Them What They Need To Do"
http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/640-guid.html
"Compact for Open-Access Publishing Equity: Mistaking intent for action?"
http://poynder.blogspot.com/2009/09/compact-for-open-access-publishing.html
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University of Ottawa among North American leaders as it launches open
access program
OTTAWA, December 8, 2009 ? 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;
http://www.ruor.uottawa.ca/en/
��������� an author fund to help researchers defray open access fees
charged by publishers;
http://oa.uottawa.ca/uo-initiatives-afund.jsp?language=en
��������� 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.
The University of Ottawa also becomes the first Canadian university to
join the Compact for Open-Access Publishing Equity (COPE),
http://www.oacompact.org/ adding its name to a list of prestigious
institutions including Cornell University, Dartmouth College, Harvard
University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the
University of California at Berkeley. The signatories of this compact
make a commitment to support open access journals that make articles
available at no charge to everyone while providing the same services
common to all scholarly journals, services such as management of the
peer review process, production and distribution.
University of Ottawa researchers have already participated in many
significant open access projects. These projects include developing
the Canadian Creative Commons license, which ensures authors retain
the right of attribution and that their work is accessible; under the
leadership of Michael Geist and Ian Kerr, the publication of legal
texts that are made available at no charge; and the founding of Open
Medicine and Aporia, two open access journals in the fields of
medicine and health sciences.
?I am proud that our university is the first one in the country to
introduce a comprehensive open access program. Canada?s university has
become Canada?s Open Access University,? said Allan Rock, president
and vice-chancellor at the University of Ottawa. ?The fruit of our
faculty?s contributions to academic research will now be more visible,
freely accessible and shared with the world.?
Open access research can be easily accessed by anyone, anywhere,
without the barrier of costly journal subscription or association
membership fees. Broad dissemination of knowledge and research without
access barriers is a great benefit to society as a whole.
For more information on the University of Ottawa?s open access
program, visit
http://oa.uottawa.ca.
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L?Universit� d?Ottawa parmi les leaders nord-am�ricains du libre acc�s
gr�ce au lancement d?un nouveau programme
OTTAWA, le 8 d�cembre 2009 ? L?Universit� d?Ottawa est la premi�re
universit� canadienne � adopter un programme complet de mesures
appuyant l?acc�s libre et gratuit � la recherche.
Le nouveau programme comprend :
��������� un engagement � fournir un acc�s en ligne libre et gratuit
aux publications savantes de l?Universit� par l?entremise du d�p�t
institutionnel Recherche uO;
��������� un fonds d?auteur pour aider les chercheurs � assumer les
frais exig�s par les �diteurs pour publier en libre acc�s;
��������� un fonds pour appuyer la cr�ation de mat�riel p�dagogique
num�rique organis� sous forme de cours et accessible gratuitement au
public en ligne;
��������� un appui au projet de publication d?une collection en libre
acc�s des Presses de l?Universit� d?Ottawa;
��������� du financement pour appuyer la recherche sur le mouvement du
libre acc�s.
L?Universit� d?Ottawa devient aussi la premi�re universit� canadienne
� signer le Compact for Open-Access Publishing Equity, se joignant
ainsi � de prestigieux �tablissements comme l?Universit� Cornell, le
Coll�ge Dartmouth, l?Universit� Harvard, le Massachusetts Institute of
Technology et l?Universit� de Californie � Berkeley. Les signataires
s?engagent � appuyer des revues savantes poursuivant des activit�s
traditionnelles comme la gestion du processus d?�valuation par les
pairs, la production et la distribution, mais dont le contenu est
librement accessible � tous.
Les chercheurs de l?Universit� d?Ottawa ont d�j� particip� � de
nombreux et importants projets concernant le libre acc�s � la
recherche, dont la cr�ation des licences publiques Creative Commons,
un type de contrat qui permet aux auteurs de conserver leur droit
d?auteur tout en donnant acc�s � leur travail; la publication, sous le
leadership de Michael Geist et Ian Kerr, de textes juridiques en libre
acc�s; la cr�ation d?Open Medicine et d?Aporia, deux revues en libre
acc�s dans les domaines de la m�decine et des sciences.
� Je suis fier que notre universit� soit la premi�re au Canada �
adopter un programme complet de mesures favorisant le libre acc�s, a
dit Allan Rock, recteur et vice-chancelier de l?Universit�.
L?Universit� canadienne est maintenant la championne du libre acc�s au
pays.� Les contributions de nos professeurs � la recherche seront
d�sormais encore plus visibles et librement accessibles � tout le
monde. �
Le libre acc�s permet � tous, en tous lieux, de consulter facilement
des travaux de recherche sans avoir � d�bourser de frais d?abonnement
ou d?association. La diffusion libre et � grande �chelle du savoir et
de la recherche comporte d?importants b�n�fices pour la soci�t� dans
son ensemble.
Pour de plus amples renseignements sur le programme de libre acc�s de
l?Universit�, visitez le
http://oa.uottawa.ca.
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