Moves to encourage legal open access to all research funded under the Australian Research Council's Discovery Projects scheme are welcomed by Queensland University of Technology legal copyright academics.
Professor Brian Fitzgerald, who heads the Open Access to Knowledge (OAK) Law Project, funded by the Federal Government and based at QUT, said the ARC had announced it would encourage researchers whose projects it had funded to place data and publications in online, open repositories such as QUT's eprints.
He said researchers concerned about copyright issues when making their findings openly and easily accessible according to ARC requirements would find a comprehensive guide to copyright management strategies in the OAK Law Report published online this year.
"The OAK Law Report provides a blueprint for research copyright management that sets out the relevant stakeholders' copyright interests and ways to manage relationships between stakeholders to achieve effective open access....The copyright guidelines will provide examples of publishing agreements and model clauses consistent with open access principles," Professor Fitzgerald said....
Posted by
Peter Suber at 12/19/2006 10:52:00 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.
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.
