The University of Southampton announced a University-wide open access (OA) mandate during the recently held Open Repositories (OR08) conference. All academic staff will hereafter be required to make all their published research available online.
Hosted by the School of Electronics and Computer Science (ECS) at the University of Southampton, OR08 seeks to create an opportunity for practitioners and researchers to share experiences and to explore the challenges of the new scholarly communication. The theme of this year's conference was Practice and Innovation.
ECS became the first to adopt a self-archiving mandate in 2001. ECS has been at the forefront of the Open Access movement worldwide, providing tools, data and policy models. The EPrints archiving software which it developed and supports was the first of its kind and is now widely used worldwide, currently supporting 251 known archives with over 440,000 records of research publications.
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