Open Access at the University of Utah
The University of Utah is working to give the public access to new research, often taxpayer-funded, without hefty subscription costs. [1] The Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences and J. Willard Marriott Libraries are building a free Internet repository for U. studies. Because many publishers have relaxed copyright laws, researchers also can store their final manuscripts in the electronic archive. [2] The libraries have purchased memberships in open access journals, to encourage U. researchers to publish in them. [3] The Eccles Library encourages [NIH-funded] faculty to submit electronic versions of their final manuscripts to PubMed Central, published by the National Library of Medicine, which releases research after publication.
PS: On the first of these: It's not in the power of publishers to relax copyright laws. For preprint archiving, no publisher cooperation is required. For postprint archiving, publishers have relaxed their demands in the copyright transfer agreement. [See earlier Israel Scholar Scrolls postings for examples of Science, Nature and Elsevier policies]
Source: P Suber. OA at the U of Utah. OANews (6 September 2005) [FullText]


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