University of Bielefeld Resolution on Open Access

"On June 6, the University of Bielefeld adopted a resolution on open access (in German). It requests [fordert auf] that Bielefeld faculty deposit copies of their postprints in the Bielefeld institutional repository. It encourages and supports [ermutigt und unterst?them to submit their work to OA journals. Update 1. Richard Sietmann has written a news story (also in German) about the Bielefeld resolution for the June 8 issue of Heise Online. Update 2. Bielefeld has just registered its OA archiving policy at the Registry of Institutional OA Self-Archiving Policies."

Source: Peter Suber. Bielefeld resolution on OA. OENews Blog (6 June 2005) [FullText]