Thursday, May 18, 2006

Helping authors retain the rights needed for OA archiving. John Ober, Facilitating open access: Developing support for author control of copyright, College Crucially, an explicit place to exercise the retained rights and provide unfettered access to scholarship, i.e., an institutional repository (IR) (or, failing that, assistance in depositing work in disciplinary repositories, such as PubMed Central, arXiv, CogPrints, and the like). By noemail@noemail.org (Peter Suber). [Open Access News] 10:49:49 AM

Advertising the institutional repository. The University of Michigan libraries issued a kind of advertisement or press release last week to encourage faculty to deposit their research in Deep Blue, UM's OA institutional repository. Excerpt: Your work: cited more, safe forever. The University of Michigan has more than 150 years of experience and expertise in presenting and preserving the world's best research and creativity. With Deep By noemail@noemail.org (Peter Suber). [Open Access News] 10:49:02 AM

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