This news is a press release written by Convenor, CLA - Canadian Library Association- Task Force on Open Access. Heather Morrison presents the policy of CLA Executive Council about Open Access.
CLA Executive Council has approved some recommendations from the Open
Access Task Force that move CLA towards providing virtually all of
its intellectual property free of charge, in
digital form, online and free of most
copyright and licensing restrictions. The revised policy has four parts:
CLA will provide for full and immediate
open access for all CLA publications,
with the exception of Feliciter and
monographs The embargo period for
Feliciter is one issue, and the embargo
policy itself will be reviewed after one year. Monographs will be considered for open access publishing on a case-by-case basis.
CLA actively encourages its members to self-archive in institutional and/or disciplinary repositories and will investigate a partnership with E-LIS, the Open Archive for Library and Information Studies.
CLA will generally provide for the author's retention of copyright by employing Creative Commons licensing or publisher-author agreements that promote open
access.
CLA will continue its
long-standing policy of accessibility
to virtually all CLA information except
for narrowly defined confidential
matters (e.g. certain personnel or legal matters).
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