Austria's Förderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung (FWF, Fund for the Promotion of Scientific Research) has adopted an open access policy. (Thanks to Matt Cockerill.) The FWF is Austria's central, public funding agency for scientific research.
So far, the policy is only available in German; but until it's translated, see Google's English.
The FWF policy lies between a request and a mandate, like the policy of Germany's DFG. It asks [fordert] all FWF-funded researchers to make their publications OA either by publishing in an OA journal or by depositing copies in an OA repository (which may be institutional or disciplinary). FWF also asks its grantees not to give publishers exclusive rights and offers to pay the fees charged by fee-based OA journals.
It appears that the new policy was adopted on October 6, 2006.
Comment. Kudos to the FWF. If we count this policy in the mandate column, it not only enlarges the number of OA mandates adopted by public funding agencies worldwide, but enlarges the number adopted this month (four new mandates from the RCUK and one older mandateexpanded by the Wellcome Trust).
Posted by
Peter Suber at 10/09/2006 11:52:00 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.
