Canadian Library Association Moves Open Access

[Heather Morrison <heatherm@eln.bc.ca>]

**  with apologies for duplication  **

 From today's CLA Digest:
http://cla.informz.net/cla/archives/archive_155065.html

CLA Moves Open Access

CLA Executive Council has approved some recommendations from the 
Open Access Task Force that move CLA towards providing virtually 
all of its intellectual property free of charge, in digital form, 
online and free of most copyright and licensing restrictions. The 
revised policy has four parts:

CLA will provide for full and immediate open access for all CLA 
publications, with the exception of Feliciter and monographs The 
embargo period for Feliciter is one issue, and the embargo policy 
itself will be reviewed after one year. Monographs will be 
considered for open access publishing on a case-by-case basis.

CLA actively encourages its members to self-archive in 
institutional and/or disciplinary repositories and will 
investigate a partnership with E-LIS, the Open Archive for 
Library and Information Studies.

CLA will generally provide for the author's retention of 
copyright by employing Creative Commons licensing or 
publisher-author agreements that promote open access. CLA will 
continue its long-standing policy of accessibility to virtually 
all CLA information except for narrowly defined confidential 
matters (e.g. certain personnel or legal matters).

The Task Force's Report is available at:
http://www.cla.ca/about/committees/Open%20Access%20Report.pdf

Heather Morrison
Convenor, CLA Task Force on Open Access
heatherm@eln.bc.ca

Any opinion expressed in this e-mail is that of the author alone, and
does not reflect the opinion or policy of BC Electronic Library
Network or Simon Fraser University Library.