[BOAI] University of Tromsø principles for Open Access publishing

[Peter Suber]

[Forwarding from the University of Tromsø.  --Peter Suber.]


*University of Tromsø principles for Open Access publishing*[1]

Free access to scientific results is an important prerequisite for a
well-functioning democracy, for the free exchange of opinions and to enable
science to be a tool for the development of society and industry. The
University of Tromsø has as its goal that all scientific publications from
the university shall be made available either in an Open Access journal or
in an institutional repository. Hence, the University of Tromsø will adhere
to the following basic principles of Open Access to scientific results.

   - *Self-archiving*: The University of Tromsø has as its general rule that
   students and researches shall self-archive their publications in Munin, the
   university’s institutional repository. Publications will be made available
   through Munin within the constraints of the agreements the authors have made
   with the publisher and publishers’ principles for self-archiving. The
   University Library of Tromsø has the responsibility for investigating and
   ensuring compliance with publishers’ policies and other questions regarding
   intellectual property rights in this context.
   - *Choice of publishing venue*: The University of Tromsø has as its
   general rule that students and researchers shall – provided publications are
   of equal scientific worth and stature – choose publishing venues that
   provide the freest access to the publications, either through having a
   positive attitude to self-archiving or by being an Open Access publishing
   venue.
   - *The University as a publisher*: The University shall endeavour to
   make journals and other publications published by the University Open
   Access publications. It is a goal that all publications published by the
   University shall permit self-archiving, and that self-archiving of the final
   published version (publisher’s PDF) shall be encouraged.



[1] This is a translation of the document approved by the Board of the
University of Tromsø on October 14th 2010 (ref. S 33-10); this English
language version has not been formally approved.
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