HKU Research Committee Agrees to Endorse a Paper on the Open Acccess Advantage
The University Research Committee of the University of Hong Kong at their September meeting discussed a paper describing the benefits of placing research results in open access, freely available to everyone. http://hub.hku.hk/handle/123456789/49851 This paper, authored by the undersigned Hong Kong Open Access Committee, described how large players, such as the US National Institute of Health and the UK's Wellcome Institute now require their funded researchers to place their research results in open access, and the increase in citations and reputation that they expect to achieve with this action. The HKU URC found that there is an Open Acccess Advantage, and that if policy is adopted in favour of open access it will achieve RGC and HKU stated goals of Knowledge Transfer. They agreed to endorse the arrangements suggested in this paper under, "Specific Proposal", for how RGC and the UGC funded institutions can likewise place their research results in open access. We ask that recipients of this email make this result widely known, with the goal of requiring open access on Hong Kong tax-payer funded research, for Hong Kong citizens, and the world. We encourage other relevant authorities and committees to likewise consider and make policy to require open access on publicly funded research. We have an opportunity to showcase our research wealth with the world, and thereby make a truly historic decision. John Bacon-Shone, The University of Hong Kong Edwin Cheng, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University Anthony Ferguson, The University of Hong Kong Carmel McNaught, The Chinese University of Hong Kong David Palmer, The University of Hong Kong Ah Chung Tsoi, Hong Kong Baptist University - Chair, HK OA Committee [ Part 2, Application/MSWORD 99KB. ] [ Unable to print this part. ] [ Part 3, Text/PLAIN (Name: "OAA_11_10_2008.txt") 638 lines. ] [ Unable to print this part. ]