[Journal-notes] Statement on Open Access from the Russell Group of UK Universities

[Stevan Harnad]

    [Adapted from SHERPA News (June 18 2005):
    http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/news/index.html#russellstatement ]

The Russell Group, nineteen of the UK's major research-led universities 

    http://www.russellgroup.ac.uk/index1.html
    http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/documents/rep_distrib.html

have released a Statement on Scholarly Communication and Publishing 

    http://www.russellgroup.ac.uk/2005/scholarly_communication.htm

echoing the recommendations of the UK Parliamentary Select Committee

    http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200304/cmselect/cmsctech/399/39903.htm

by pledging to 

    "support the development of institutional repositories of research
    papers... [and to] actively encourage their researchers to deposit
    their work in them".

(Of the Russell Group 84% [16/19] already have institutional repositories.)

    http://archives.eprints.org/eprints.php?page=all&country=uk

      Birmingham  http://eprints.bham.ac.uk/
      Bristol  http://rose.bris.ac.uk/dspace/
      Cambridge  http://www.dspace.cam.ac.uk/
      Cardiff
      Edinburgh  http://www.era.lib.ed.ac.uk/
      Glasgow  http://eprints.gla.ac.uk/
      Imperial College http://eprints.imperial.ac.uk/
      King's College London  http://eprints.kcl.ac.uk/
      Leeds  http://sherpa.leeds.ac.uk/
      Liverpool 
      London School of Economics http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/
      Manchester 
      Newcastle upon Tyne  http://rogue.ncl.ac.uk/
      Nottingham  http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/
      Oxford http://eprints.ouls.ox.ac.uk/
      Sheffield  http://sherpa.leeds.ac.uk/
      Southampton  http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/
      University College London  http://eprints.ucl.ac.uk/
      Warwick  http://eprints.csc.warwick.ac.uk/