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- As of April 7, 2008, the National Institutes of Health will require all investigators who receive NIH funding for their research grants to submit their final peer-reviewed manuscripts to PubMed Central no later than 12 months after acceptance for journal publication. Failure to comply will mean a loss of funding. There are currently some 300 journals that submit articles directly to PubMed Central on behalf of their authors, which means that the authors are not required to do anything extra to meet the NIH Public Access policy. (more about the NIH mandate...)
- On February 12, 2008, Harvard University's arts and sciences faculty adopted a policy that requires faculty members to allow the university to make their scholarly articles free online. This has made Harvard the first university in the United States to mandate open access to its faculty members' research. (more about Harvard's decision...)
- On January 21, 2008, the University of California at Berkeley announced that it would offer its researchers access to funding that would cover publication charges for open access journals. This Berkeley Research Impact Initiative also covers a portion of fees charged by non-OA publishers that are willing to provide immediate free access to articles. (more about Berkeley Research Impact Initiative...)
- View the Directory of Open Access Journals
- Learn more about open access from SPARC, an initiative of the Association of Research Libraries
- Learn more about how you can help to Create Change
- Learn more about the international Open Access Week
- View a presentation by NASULGC Vice President David Shulenburger about the role of open access in higher education today.
- WVU Open Access Program (pdf)
- wvuScholar Repository Launch Press Release (pdf)
- Decade of ETD Success at WVU Press Release (pdf)
- WVU Open Access Scholarly Communications Program 2009 (ppt)
- Open Access Week @ WVU
- Open Access Videos