Tuesday, May 4, 2010
Concordia goes open access
Congratulations to Concordia University for adopting a policy that will "encourage all of its faculty and students to make their peer-reviewed research and creative output freely accessible via the internet." This shows Concordia's laudable desire to "make publicly-funded research available to all rather than just the minority able to afford the rapidly rising subscription costs of scholarly databases, books and journals."
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MORE THAN MERE ENCOURAGEMENT…
ReplyDeleteFortunately, the Concordia mandate is indeed a mandate (i.e., requirement), not just "encouragement," because nearly a decade of consistent experience and evidence worldwide shows that only mandates work.
Here is the exact language of the Concordia resolution adopted by the Senate:
"[I]n the specific case of any scholarly article accepted for publication in a peer-reviewed journal, [Concordia University] from now on requires all faculty members to deposit an electronic copy in Spectrum along with non-exclusive permission to preserve and freely disseminate it..."
See ROARMAP for all registered mandates to date.