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OASIS aims to provide an authoritative ‘sourcebook’ on Open Access, covering the concept, principles, advantages, approaches and means to achieving it. The site highlights developments and initiatives from around the world, with links to diverse additional resources and case studies. As such, it is a community-building as much as a resource-building exercise. Users are encouraged to share and download the resources provided, and to modify and customize them for local use. Open Access is evolving, and we invite the growing world-wide community to take part in this exciting global movement.
Read more about the site.
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EIFL's 2011 case studies in OA advocacy have now been published. The collection includes 13 examples of successful advocacy from libraries in 12 countries (Botswana, Ghana, Malawi, Sudan, Zimbabwe, Lithuania, Serbia, Latvia, Estonia, Poland, Slovenia and Ukraine). Advocacy initiatives covered national campaigns, institutional advocacy and OA journal publishing studies.
EIFL provided financial support to 13 projects that implemented national and institutional open access advocacy campaigns to reach out to research communities and open access publishing initiatives. Through small grants and support from their own institutions, the projects engaged in a wide variety of campaigns and activities, including: holding workshops, creating websites, building institutional repositories, creating an e-learning course, and implementing an OA publishing platform. All of which resulted in increased awareness about and understanding of OA.
www.eifl.net/eifl-oa-case-studies
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The Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR) is pleased to announce the availability of the Open Access Policy Kit. The kit was produced by RCAAP (Portugal Open Access Science Repository) and contains valuable information and resources for the development and implementation of Open Access policies at funding agencies and universities.
The information contained in the kit is based on the analysis and adaptation of national and international examples and best practices. It is divided into two sections: the first relates to Open Access policies of research institutions; and the second to the policies of research funding agencies. In addition to contextual information, the kit also contains policy models, implementation plans and additional sources of information on the topic.
The Open Access Policy kit is freely available to all and can be downloaded from the RCAAP website:
A New Tool on the Way!
The Open Access Map: Charting the Growth and Development of Open Access Globally.
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Briefing Paper for OA Week: Copyright and authors' rights.
Written by Kevin Smith and Dave Hansen of Duke University, this Briefing Paper explains the main issues around the rights authors have and should retain when publishing their work. See other OASIS Briefing Papers too (follow link on the left sidebar). Ideal for use in OA Week to raise understanding of the issues.
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