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A. Recommendations for University Leadership
The basic approach... should be the creation of an institutional
repository. These repositories should be established and managed
according to current best practices (following recommendations and
guidelines from DRIVER and similar projects) complying with the OAI-PMH
protocol and allowing inter-operability and future networking for wider
usage....
University institutional policies should require that their researchers
deposit (self-archive) their scientific publications in their
institutional repository upon acceptance for publication. Permissible
embargoes should apply only to the date of open access provision and not
the date of deposit. Such policies would be in compliance with evolving
policies of research funding agencies at the national and European level
such as the ERC.
B. Recommendations for National Rectors' Conferences
All National Rectors' Conferences should work with national research
funding agencies and governments in their countries to implement the
requirement for self-archiving of research publications in institutional
repositories and other appropriate open access repositories according to
best practice models of the ERC and existing national research funding
agencies operating open access mandates...
C. Recommendations for the European University Association
EUA should continue to contribute actively to the policy dialogue on Open
Access at the European level with a view to a self-archiving mandate for all
research results arising from EU research programme/project funding, hence in
support of and building upon the ERC position and other international
initiatives such as that of the US National Institutes of Health (NIH).
