http://www.eprints.org/berlin3/program.html http://www.opendoar.org ------------------------------------------ Mail 1 University of Southampton Press Release 16 February 2005 International meeting in Southampton could create a worldwide policy for Open Access A meeting of international institutions which have signed up to Open Access (OA) could result in a united policy creating a huge growth in free access to research findings. The Berlin 3 Open Access Meeting: Progress in Implementing the Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities will be hosted by the University of Southampton on Monday 28 February and Tuesday 1 March. The purpose of this meeting, which will include representatives from Europe, the US, India and Pakistan, is to implement the Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities, which has now been signed by 55 major international research institutes since its launch in Berlin in October 2003,an initiative widely hailed at the time as world-leading. University of Southampton Professor Stevan Harnad, one of the founders of the OA worldwide movement comments: �The Berlin Declaration itself was only an abstract expression of the principle that scholarly and scientific research should be free online to all potential users worldwide. We now need to implement the Declaration so as to make it a practical policy which institutions that have signed can commit to adopting.� During the 2-day event, representatives from some of the world�s most prestigious research institutions, including France�s CNRS and Germany�s Max-Planck Institute, will present their experience of implementing the Berlin Declaration in their organizations. Southampton University itself will be proposing a Unified Open Access Provision Policy, as a practical way to implement the Berlin OA Declaration based on the successful approach it has recently adopted and announced. It will suggest that universities and research institutions worldwide should adopt a policy that all of their published research journal articles (whether in OA or non-OA journals) are deposited � immediately and permanently -- in their own institutional OA Archives, freely accessible to all potential users worldwide (rather than just to those whose institutions can afford the access-tolls of the non-OA journals). The meeting will conclude with a discussion on implementation of the latest Berlin roadmap and a call to new organisations to sign the Declaration. Notes to Editors 1. For further information about Berlin 3, please visit the meeting�s website at http://www.eprints.org/berlin3/program.html Details of the University of Southampton policy announcement can be found at: http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/news/667 Details of last month�s OA workshops at Southampton can be found at: http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/news/669 http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/news/673 http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/news/676 2. The University of Southampton is the home of GNU EPrints software, the most widely used software for building Institutional Repositories, and the JISC (the Joint Information Systems Committee) TARDis (Targeting Academic Research for Deposit and Disclosure) project, which has been investigating the technical, cultural and academic issues which surround institutional repositories. 3. The University of Southampton is a leading UK teaching and research institution with a global reputation for leading-edge research and scholarship. The University has over 20,000 students and over 5000 staff. Its annual turnover is in the region of �270 million. Useful web sites for journalists www.experts.soton.ac.uk - an A-Z guide of University experts For further information, please contact: Professor Stevan Harnad, ECS, Tel: 023 8059 2582, email: harnad@ecs.soton.ac.uk Joyce Lewis, Communications Manager, Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton, Tel: 023 8059 5453, email:j.k.lewis@ecs.soton.ac.uk ------------------------------------------ Mail 2 [Forwarding from Bill Hubbard. --Peter.] A new service is starting development to support the rapidly emerging movement towards Open Access to research information. The new service, called DOAR - the Directory of Open Access Repositories - will categorise and list the wide variety of Open Access research archives that have grown up around the world. Such repositories have mushroomed over the last 2 years in response to calls by scholars and researchers worldwide to provide open access to research information. DOAR will provide a comprehensive and authoritative list of institutional and subject-based repositories, as well as archives set up by funding agencies - like the National Institutes for Health in the USA or the Wellcome Trust in the UK and Europe. Users of the service will be able to analyse repositories by location, type, the material they hold and other measures. This will be of use both to users wishing to find original research papers in specific repositories and for third-party "service providers", like search engines or alert services, which need easy to use tools for developing tailored search services to suit specific user communities. The project is a joint collaboration between the University of Nottingham in the UK and the University of Lund in Sweden. Both institutions are active in supporting Open Access development. Lund operates the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), which is known throughout the world. Nottingham leads SHERPA, an institutional repository project that has helped establish Open Access archives in 20 of the leading UK research universities. Nottingham also runs the SHERPA/RoMEO database, which is used worldwide as a reference for publisher's copyright policies. The importance and widespread support for the project can be seen in its funders, led by the Open Society Institute (OSI), along with the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC), the Consortium of Research Libraries (CURL) and SPARCEurope. More information on the project is available on the project website - http://www.opendoar.org * * * * Bill Hubbard SHERPA Project Manager www.sherpa.ac.uk IS Divisional Office, Hallward Library, University of Nottingham, University Park, Nottingham. NG7 2RD tel: (0115) 846 7657 fax: (0115) 951 4558
--JK Vijayakumar, INFLIBNET
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