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Wednesday, October 12, 2005

University of Zurich adopts OA mandate

Stevan Harnad reports that the University of Zurich Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology has adopted a policy to require faculty to deposit their refereed articles in the institution's OA repository. From Stevan's announcement:
The University of Zurich has just registered its Institutional Self-Archiving Policy....The 14th institution with a [self-archiving] policy, Zurich is the 4th (after Southampton, Queensland University of Technology, and CERN) with a mandate rather than merely a recommendation. This is also the second mandate in a Swiss institution.
(PS: Kudos to all involved at the University of Zurich. By my count, however, Zurich is the fifth university with an OA mandata, not the fourth. Portugal's University of Minho has had such a policy since late 2004.)