Excerpt from Peter Suber's Open Access News
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2004_08_08_fosblogarchive.html#a109240384557714980
The Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL)
http://www.carl-abrc.ca/
has written a Brief to the Social Sciences and Humanities Research
Council of Canada, June 29, 2004.
http://www.carl-abrc.ca/projects/sshrc/transformation-brief.pdf
The brief recommends ways in which Canada's Social Science and Humanities
Research Council (SSHRC)
http://www.sshrc.ca/
might transform itself, especially to promote new and more effective
forms of scholarly communication. It recommends (p. 4) that
the SSHRC sign the Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI),
http://www.soros.org/openaccess/
"work actively" toward the BOAI's goals,
allocate a percentage of each SSHRC research grant to
OA journal publication fees,
consider requiring SSHRC grant recipients to deposit
their work in OA archives,
http://www.eprints.org/signup/sign.php
and work with other Granting Councils to develop a Canadian national
policy for open access to taxpayer-funded research.
(Thanks to Colin Steele.)
Posted by Peter Suber at 9:16 AM.
