Good to hear that many institutions in different countries are taking the lead. I am happy to see the OAA movement truly emerging as a bottom-up participatory movement. Now the chances of success are pretty high.
Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam] --- Derek Law <d....@strath.ac.uk> wrote: > And the University of Minho will be holding a > seminar on May 12-13 to try and stimulate a national > initiative in Portugal. > Derek Law > > _______________________ > Professor Derek Law > Turnbull Building > University of Strathclyde > 155 George Street > Glasgow G1 1RD > United Kingdom > Tel: +44 141 548 4997 > > ________________________________ > > From: American Scientist Open Access Forum on behalf > of Stevan Harnad > Sent: Fri 01/04/2005 02:42 > To: > american-scientist-open-access-fo...@listserver.sigmaxi.org > Subject: Six Open Access Talks April - June 2005 > > > > Six Open Access Talks April - June 2005: > > Indiana University 4-5 April 2005: > > 1. "Open Access Scientometrics" > Networks and Complex Systems, Monday, 4 April > http://vw.indiana.edu/talks-spring05/ > > 2. "Maximizing Research Impact Through > Institutional Self-Archiving". > Rob Kling Center for Social Informatics Speaker > Series. > Indiana University, Tuesday 5 April 2005. > > http://www.slis.indiana.edu/research/colloq_readingss05.html#harnad > > University of Maryland (College Park) 1 May 2005: > > 3. "Institutional repository models: What works > and what doesn't." > DASER-2 Summit: Digital Archives for Science & > Engineering Resources. > http://www.daser.org/program.html > > University of Goettingen, Germany 23-24 May 2005: > > 4. "Designing and Implementing University and > Research Institution > Self-Archiving Policy" Dini Workshop on Open > Access > > http://rdd.sub.uni-goettingen.de/wiki/DINIopenaccessworkshop/DINIopenaccessworkshop > > Quebec, Canada, June 2 2005: > > 5. Keynote. "The green and gold roads to > maximizing research access > and impact" International Association of > Technological University > Libraries > http://www.bibl.ulaval.ca/iatul2005/Harnad_Stevan_pres.html > > University of Vienna, Austria 15-16 June 2005: > > 6. Keynote. "Open Access and the Author > Give-Away/Non-Give-Away > Distinction" Freedom of Information and Open > Access. Chaos Control > 2005. University of Vienna/School of Law, the > Austrian Academy > of Science and the Danube University, Krems. > 15-16 June 2005. > http://www.chaoscontrol.at/ > > Stevan Harnad > > AMERICAN SCIENTIST OPEN ACCESS FORUM: > A complete Hypermail archive of the ongoing > discussion of providing > open access to the peer-reviewed research literature > online (1998-2005) > is available at: > http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/ > To join or leave the Forum or change your > subscription address: > http://amsci-forum.amsci.org/archives/American-Scientist-Open-Access-Forum.html > Post discussion to: > > american-scientist-open-access-fo...@amsci.org > > UNIVERSITIES: If you have adopted or plan to adopt > an institutional > policy of providing Open Access to your own research > article output, > please describe your policy at: > http://www.eprints.org/signup/sign.php > > UNIFIED DUAL OPEN-ACCESS-PROVISION POLICY: > BOAI-1 ("green"): Publish your article in a > suitable toll-access journal > http://romeo.eprints.org/ > OR > BOAI-2 ("gold"): Publish your article in a > open-access journal if/when > a suitable one exists. > http://www.doaj.org/ > AND > in BOTH cases self-archive a supplementary > version of your article > in your institutional repository. > http://www.eprints.org/self-faq/ > http://archives.eprints.org/ > Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com