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Re: European University Association Open Access Recommendations



Sorry to harp on this, but there is no language here that restricts the policy to just articles. Any normal reading of what "all research publications" and "all research results" mean would include monographs as well as articles. Does anyone happen to know if that is what the EUA intended to say?

Sandy Thatcher
Director, Penn State Press
University Park, PA 16802-1003


[Apologies for Multiple Posting]

These recommendations by the EUA Working Group on Open Access were adopted unanimously by the Council of the European University Association on January 25 2008.

Many thanks to Professor Bernard Rentier, Rector, University of Liege and founder of EurOpenScholar, who has forwarded them to the American Scientist Open Access Forum for posting, with permission.

Below are the highlights of the recommendations, followed by the recommendations in full. The recommendation is that all European Universities should create institutional repositories and should mandate that all research publications must be deposited in them immediately upon publication (and made Open Access as soon as possible thereafter), as already mandated by RCUK, ERC, and NIH, and as recommended by EURAB. EUA also recommends that this self-archiving mandate should be extended to all research results arising from EU research programme/project funding.

HIGHLIGHTS:

A. Recommendations for University Leadership

The basic approach... should be the creation of an institutional
repository. These repositories should be established and managed
according to current best practices (following recommendations
and guidelines from DRIVER and similar projects) complying with the
OAI-PMH protocol and allowing inter-operability and future networking
for wider usage....

University institutional policies should require that their
researchers deposit (self-archive) their scientific publications
in their institutional repository upon acceptance for publication.
Permissible embargoes should apply only to the date of open access
provision and not the date of deposit. Such policies would be in
compliance with evolving policies of research funding agencies at
the national and European level such as the ERC.

B. Recommendations for National Rectors' Conferences

All National Rectors' Conferences should work with national research
funding agencies and governments in their countries to implement
the requirement for self-archiving of research publications
in institutional repositories and other appropriate open access
repositories according to best practice models of the ERC and existing
national research funding agencies operating open access mandates...

C. Recommendations for the European University Association

EUA should continue to contribute actively to the policy dialogue on
Open Access at the European level with a view to a self-archiving
mandate for all research results arising from EU research
programme/project funding, hence in support of and building upon
the ERC position and other international initiatives such as that
of the US National Institutes of Health (NIH).

[SNIP]