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European Roadmap towards Open Access

Created on Tuesday, 10 July 2012 12:40
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Open access is on the agenda - but how can universities implement it? The League of European Research Universities (LERU) now created a roadmap offering advice and support.

Both individual institutes and international organizations are struggling to make European research openly accessible. Benefits of such a policy have been shown repeatedly. Now, a LERU working group has compiled a 'Roadmap towards Open Access'. Through this document, the organization hopes to guide universities by giving clear-cut advice on how to achieve open access to research.

The paper describes both "Green route" repositories and "Gold route" Open Access journals and steps towards their implementation. This is accompanied by a list of examples and supporting organizations and cost estimates. A survey of UK repositories for instance indicates that the Green route costs between €30,000 and €242,000 annually.

Source: ScienceGuide

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