Open access legislation in the US and Canada looks to prioritise post-publication archiving, not publishers’ profits.
As part of Open Access week, which promotes free, immediate, online access to the results of scholarly research, Heather Morrison presents cases from the U.S. and Canada, which grappling with how to provide wider access to publicly funded research. If passed, the U.S.’s FASTR Act would require ‘green’ archiving and a focus on interoperability of local repositories. Across North America, faculty-led […]
