University of Kansas Registers its Institutional OA Self-ArchivingPolicy

[Stevan Harnad <harnad@ecs.soton.ac.uk>]

The University of Kansas has become the first US University to adopt a
university-wide open-access self-archiving policy. The policy is
registered and described at:

    http://www.eprints.org/signup/fulllist.php

Other universities and research institutions are encouraged to follow
suit:

    http://www.eprints.org/signup/sign.php

The University of Kansas OA policy is the culmination of many years of
relentless effort on the part of the Executive Vice Chancellor and
Provost, David E. Shulenburger:

    http://www.arl.org/arl/proceedings/133/shulenburger.html

That makes it 12 registered institutional policies to date (including CERN
as well as France's mega-institutions: CNRS and INRIA, and soon also
INRA). For the US's AAU universities, that's now 1 down, 61 to go!

(My own personal hope is that AAU number 2 will be Indiana University,
where I lobbied so hard this past week:

    http://www.slis.indiana.edu/research/colloq_readingss05.html#harnad
    http://vw.indiana.edu/talks-spring05/

but all Universities, AAU and non-AAU, are invited, and the sooner
the better!)

Stevan Harnad