Upon publication, research funded through SSHRC should be made openly accessible, as defined in the Budapest and Berlin declarations. In order to ensure access to and preservation of SSHRC-funded research, the researcher should place his or her research in an institutional repository, preferably a Canadian repository if available....[E]xceptions should be made where there is an expectation of financial return [e.g. for books]. However, open access publication should be encouraged....[SSHRC should let grant funds to pay processing fees charged by OA journals.] If an author's publication fees were an eligible expense within a SSHRC grant, it would encourage researchers to publish in open access venues. Moreover, the publication fee system assists journals in their adoption of open access publishing by providing some means of financial wherewithal to change their practices, particularly if the journal itself is not subsidized....While it is impossible for the Canadian Library Association to speak for all of its members, it is our belief and experience that librarians who are researchers and authors are strongly in favour of open access and, apart from the exception noted above, will be
willing to comply with such a regulation for SSHRC-funded research.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 11/01/2005 08:11:00 AM.
The open access movement:
Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature
on the internet. Making it available free of charge and
free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
Removing the barriers to serious research.
I recommend the OA tracking project (OATP) as the best way to stay on top of new OA developments. You can read the OATP feed on a blog-like web page or subscribe to it by RSS, email, or Twitter. You can also help build the feed by tagging new developments you encounter.
