... At York University, we host a repository called YorkSpace which serves as our publicly accessible digital library of scholarship. The YorkSpace team is available to address copyright questions and to help those that would like to ensure access to their research.
When compiling an online CV or a list of recent articles for your departmental profile, links to your articles that reside within the library’s electronic resources will not be accessible to those outside of the York community since a Passport York account is required for access.
If you deposit your articles in YorkSpace, you can easily link to them with no access restrictions. Added benefits include improved discovery of your work, institutional context and the library’s commitment to the persistence and preservation of your work. ...
From the sidebar:
The [York University] Libraries are actively supporting the principles of Open Access. ...
If you would like a workshop for your graduate students on the implications of open access and their academic career, please contact Mark Robertson, Associate University Librarian, Information Services.
Our Scholarly Communications Initiative adopts a strong advocacy role in raising awareness within the York community around open access and author rights issues. Within the broader Canadian context, York, as a member of the Canadian Research Knowledge Network (CRKN), fully endorses the CRKN Statement on Alternative Publishing Modes & Open Access.
York University Libraries has long provided financial support for a number of Open Access initiatives including [SPARC, the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, the Directory of Open Access Journals, the Internet Archive, BioMed Central, Bioline, Public Library of Science] ...
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.
