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Stevan Harnad has created a summary of the universities, university departments, and funding agencies that are requiring their authors to make their research available in an open access mode. See his blog entry, "Pit-Bulls vs. Petitions: A Historic Time for Open Access" on the blog Open Access Archivangelism.
You'll notice that Europe is ahead of the U.S. in this activity, though the U.S. will catch up if several important U.S. funder mandates are passed.
University / Departments mandating Open Access:
AUSTRALIA inst-mandate Queensland U. Technol
AUSTRALIA inst-mandate U. Tasmania
EUROPE inst-mandate Eur Org Nuc Res (CERN)
INDIA inst-mandate Nat Inst Tech Rourkela
INDIA inst-mandate Bharathidasan U
PORTUGAL inst-mandate U. Minho
SWITZERLAND inst-mandate U. Zurich
AUSTRALIA dept-mandate U. Tasmania Sch Comp
FRANCE dept-mandate Lab Psych Neurosci Cog
UNITED KINGDOM dept-mandate U Southampton Dept ECS
UNITED KINGDOM dept-mandate Brunel U Sch Info Sys Comp Maths
Funding agencies that are requiring their authors to make their publications available to all:
AUSTRALIA funder-mandate Australian Res Cncl (ARC)
AUSTRALIA funder-mandate National Health and Medical Res Cncl (NHMRC)
UNITED KINGDOM funder-mandate Arthritis Res Foundation
UNITED KINGDOM funder-mandate Biotech Bio Sci Res Cncl (BBSRC)
UNITED KINGDOM funder-mandate Chief Sci Off (Scottish Exec Health)
UNITED KINGDOM funder-mandate Economic and Social Res Cncl (ESRC)
UNITED KINGDOM funder-mandate Medical Res Cncl (MRC)
UNITED KINGDOM funder-mandate National Environmental Res Cncl (NERC)
UNITED KINGDOM funder-mandate Particle Phys & Astron Res Cncl (PPARC)
UNITED KINGDOM funder-mandate Wellcome Trust
In addition, there are several proposals that will mandate Open Access that are working their way through the agencies:
CANADA proposed funder-mandate Can Insts Health Res (CIHR)
EUROPE proposed funder-mandate European Res Advisory Board (EURAB)
EUROPE proposed funder-mandate European Res Cncl (ERC)
EUROPE proposed funder-mandate European Commission
UNITED STATES proposed funder-mandate Fed Res Pub Access Act (FRPAA)
UNITED STATES proposed funder-mandate Nat Insts Health (NIH)
Posted by Katie Newman at February 5, 2007 10:23 AM
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