National Research Council Canada adopts OA mandate
August 17, 2008
As introduced in Peter Suber’s Open Access Blog posting, National Research Council Canada (NRC) has adopted an OA mandate effective January 2009.
The NRC will be developing an OA repository called NPArC and will require as of next year that all NRC institutes deposit copies of all peer-reviewed publications and technical reports in the new repository.
It is most exciting to hear that NRC is following in the footsteps of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research with its open access policy that came into effect on January 1st, 2008. I hope that this will help keep the momentum going so that other Canadian granting agencies such as the Social Science and Humanities Research Council will follow suit.
