Universite du Quebec a Montreal becomes first North American Unive=

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

rsity
  to sign Berlin Declaration on Open Access
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         ** Apologies for Cross-Posting **

L'universit=E9 du Qu=E9bec =E0 Montr=E9al devint la premi=E9re universit=E9
nord-am=E9ricaine =E0 signer la d=E9claration de Berlin pour l'acc=E8s libr=
e.

The Universit=E9 du Qu=E9bec =E0 Montr=E9al has become the first North Amer=
ican
University to sign the Berlin Declaration.

http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2006_03_26_fosblogarchive.html#114390894=
155983163

http://www.zim.mpg.de/openaccess-berlin/signatories.html

Berlin is a Declaration of principle. The next step is to put it=20
into practice, which UQaM is likewise preparing to do shortly, by=20
relaunching its Institutional Repository (version:=20
http://eprints2.uqam.ca/ ) and it will soon be registering its=20
institutional commitment in:

     http://www.eprints.org/openaccess/policysignup/
     http://www.eprints.org/openaccess/policysignup/sign.php
     http://www.unites.uqam.ca/cnc/declaration.fr.html

The rest of laggard North America is encouraged to hurry and follow
suit: Europe is so far way ahead on this!

Stevan Harnad
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