The open access policy adopted by Ternopil State Ivan Pul'uj Technical University (TSTU) mandates that all published journal articles and conference papers be deposited in Electronic Archive of TSTU (ELARTU) if there are no legal objections by publishers.
ELARTU also encourages and fully supports self-archiving of other research output produced by scientists and students of the university as well as other members of the scientific community.
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This is the first university-level OA mandate in the Ukraine. Kudos to all involved. I can't tell from this short summary whether the policy requires deposit at the time of acceptance or some later date. It needn't allow faculty waivers, since (unfortunately) it has a built-in loophole for dissenting publishers. At the next review, I hope the university can shift the opt-out from publishers to authors, as Harvard, Stanford, and MIT have done.
Also see our past posts on national-level OA mandate for publicly-funded research in the Ukraine.
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.
