[Irtalk] UWC's OA Mandate

[Hilton Gibson]

Hi Allison

Let me be the first on the list to say, well done!
Excellently articulated policy and a great looking repository!
I really like your addendum!!

Cheers

hg

*Hilton Gibson*
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On 18 November 2014 14:35, Allison Fullard <afullard at uwc.ac.za> wrote:

>  Dear Colleagues
> I'm very pleased to advise that UWC Senate has approved an OA Policy.  It
> will be passed by Council at towards the end of the month.
>
> The language of the policy is fairly strong and is backed up with a legal
> Addendum (thanks for input from Wits, Denise!).  On the downside,
> publishers are able to request a 12 month embargo before full texts are
> made available.
>
> From the attached policy:
> "The UWC Addendum to Publication Agreement (Annexure 1), that gives effect
> to this commitment on the part of the university, must be completed by all
> first author researchers upon acceptance of their article for publication
> and serves as the written notice of the agreement by the publisher".
>
> "Upon acceptance of a scholarly research output for publication, a UWC
> researcher is required to register with the Research Repository and deposit
> an author final version of the research output into the Repository."
>
> Clearly, implementation will not be straight forward.  Nevertheless, we've
> been pushing the message fairly consistently for 4-5 years now, so I"m
> hoping that this policy can help self-archiving to become internalised on
> our campus.
>
> It will be registered at RoarMap too.
>
> This is another step forward for us in SA!
>
> Regards
> Allison
>
>
>
>
> Allison Fullard
> Deputy Director: Library Services
> University of the Western Cape
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