EPSRC: 7th and Last UK Research Now Mandates Open Access Too

[Stevan Harnad <amsciforum@gmail.com>]

Via Peter Suber's OA News:

http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2009/01/esprc-adopted-oa-mandate.html


UK's 21st Green OA Mandate, Planet's 62nd

Engineering & Physical Sciences Research Council (ESPRC) (UK 
funder-mandate)

http://www.eprints.org/openaccess/policysignup/fullinfo.php?inst=Engineering%20%26%20Physical%20Sciences%20Research%20Council%20%28ESPRC%29

http://www.epsrc.ac.uk/

Institution's/Department's OA Eprint Archives
http://roar.eprints.org/ http://roar.eprints.org/

Institution's/Department's OA Self-Archiving Policy
http://www.epsrc.ac.uk/AboutEPSRC/AccessInfo/ROAccess.htm

The independent study commissioned by Research Councils UK was 
completed in late 2008. The findings from the study are now being 
taken forward by the Cross-Council Research Outputs Group and 
will be used to inform future policy on open access. EPSRC 
Council agreed at its December meeting to mandate open access 
publication, but that academics should be able to choose whether 
they use the green option (ie, self-archiving in an on-line 
repository) or gold option (ie, pay-to-publish in an open access 
journal). Further details will be published in spring 2009.