Library - Open Access: Policies & Perspectives

• SHERPA/JULIET Open Access Policy database

  This searchable database provides information about the open access publishing and archiving policies of many key funding agencies.
• Bethesda Statement on Open Access Publishing

  This 2003 statement drafted by the biomedical research community defines open access and supports open access publishing.
• Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities

  The Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities of 22 October 2003 is one of the milestones of the Open Access movement.
• Budapest Open Access Initiative

  This 2001 initiative launched by the Open Society Institute established a foundation of open access principles relating to research literature.
• World Bank Open Access Policy

  The World Bank recognizes an open access policy for its published documents and reports.
• Modern Language Association Statement on Public Access to Federally Funded Research

  The MLA is "working with . . . members to develop a set of new professional practices and standards for . . . open, publicly accessible communication – new modes of editing, new forms of peer review – and we are committed to the idea that the role of the society in the years ahead will be to support those new practices. . . ."

Purpose of Policy

• To increase the discoverability and visibility of scholarly outputs at UJ thereby increasing citations.
• Ensure that through the assistance of the University the rights to scholarly outputs that might otherwise be signed away, often unnecessarily, in agreements with publishers are reserved.[1]
• Ensure the participation of UJ scholars in global knowledge communities.
• Ensure the preservation, transmission, and advancement of the knowledge production of the University's academic community.
• Develop research capacity by contributing to accessible knowledge production, dissemination, and sharing.
• To share the resources of the University more broadly with society to enhance social and economic development.