[BOAI] Open Access Policy Kit

[Peter Suber]

[Forwarding from João Moreira, via the JISC-Repositories list.  --Peter
Suber.]

Dear All,

The Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR) is pleased to announce
the availability of the Open Access Policy Kit. The kit was produced by
RCAAP (Portugal Open Access Science Repository) and contains valuable
information and resources for the development and implementation of Open
Access policies at funding agencies and universities.

A growing number of organizations involved in research are adopting Open
Access policies to ensure that the results of the research they support are
widely available to researchers, practitioners, policy makers, and the
general public. The Open Access Policy Kit provides detailed guidance and
support for organizations considering developing such policies.

The information contained in the kit is based on the analysis and adaptation
of national and international examples and best practices. It is divided
into two sections: the first relates to Open Access policies of research
institutions; and the second to the policies of research funding agencies.
In addition to contextual information, the kit also contains policy models,
implementation plans and additional sources of information on the topic.

The Open Access Policy Kit contributes to one of COAR's key objectives, to
increase the worldwide adoption of policies requiring the deposit of
research papers into Open Access repositories.

The Open Access Policy kit is freely available to all and can be downloaded
from the RCAAP website:



http://projecto.rcaap.pt/index.php/lang-en/como-criar-um-repositorio/politicas-de-auto-arquivo



For more information, please contact:

Eloy Rodrigues: eloy at sdum@uminho.pt (RCAAP)

João Moreira: jmm at fccn.pt (RCAAP)



*About RCAAP*

RCAAP is an initiative of UMIC (http://www.english.umic.pt/) - Agency for
the Knowledge Society, managed by FCCN (http://www.fccn.pt/) - Foundation
for National Scientific Computing and Minho University (http://www.uminho.pt
).
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