U Southampton OA IRs workshop underway

Two one-day workshops, one a tutorial on practice, one a symposium on policy, held back-to-back provide a comprehensive overview of Open Access Institutional Repositories (OA IRs) in the UK, ...

Background

2005 is poised to be a breakthrough year for Open Access Institutional Repositories in the UK. JISC is set to announce a major call for projects on Institutional Repositories (JISC 2004). Following the lead of the House of Commons Science and Technology Committee (HoC 2004) -- which recommended mandating author-institution self-archiving of all UK-funded research output, as did the Congress-endorsed open-access plan now being implemented by the National Institutes of Health in the USA (NIH 2004) as well as by the Wellcome Trust -- the eight UK research councils are now considering how to increase access to UK research output. Open Access Institutional Repositories (OA IRs) are critical in supplementing existing access to peer-reviewed journals.

[UK] Open Access Digital Repositories: Leadership, Direction and Launch
January 25-26, 2005