In compliance with the principle of sharing scientific research
results, electronic versions of Masters and Ph.D. theses of Middle
East Technical University are open to national and international
access. Based on the Berlin Declaration (Berlin, October 2003)
http://www.zim.mpg.de/openaccess-berlin/berlindeclaration.html and
the Berlin 3 Open Access recommendations (Southampton, March 2005)
http://www.eprints.org/events/berlin3/outcomes.html
the University to
-- Require their researchers to deposit a copy of all their Masters
and Ph.D. theses, published and refereed articles in the Institutional
Repository of Middle East Technical University, if there are no legal
objections,
-- Encourage and support their authors to publish their research articles
in open access journals where a suitable journals exist and provide
the support to enable that to happen.
Added by: Emre Hasan Akbayrak (Associate Director of the METU Library) akbayrak AT metu.edu.tr on 18 Apr 2007
