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Furthermore, articles made available electronically on an open access basis have been
shown to be cited 92 on average 50 per cent more often than non-open access articles from
the same journal, thus ensuring the greatest possible benefit both to the authors, to the
vestment of funding agencies and to scientific progress. The benefits to authors, readers
and their organisations is now increasingly recognised worldwide and at November 4 th
2006, 761 repositories had already been registered in the Registry of Open Access Repositories,
and the Open Archives Initiative’s OAIster search engine 93 could search over
9,000,000 records in interoperable Open Access repositories.
Building on the Budapest Open Access Initiative recommendations, 94 and past
rations of commitments to the strategy of Open Access, 95 particularly the Salvador
tional Declaration on Open Access for Developing Countries, 96 and recognising the
fits that Open Access will bring to the strengthening of science, participants to the Workshop
agreed the following model National Open Access Policy for Developing Countries.
A National Open Access Policy for Developing Countries
The [country-name] Government/Government Department expects the authors of
papers reporting publicly-funded research to maximise the accessibility, usage and
applications of their findings. To this end:
As a condition for research funding, the [country-name] Government:
(1) requires electronic copies of any research papers that have been accepted for
publication in a peer-reviewed journal, and are supported in whole or in part by
Government funding, to be deposited in an institutional digital repository [IR]
immediately upon acceptance for publication;
(2) encourages Government Grant Holders to provide Open Access to their deposited
papers immediately upon deposit;
(3) encourages Government Grant Holders to publish in a suitable Open Access
Journal where one exists.
What are the benefits to scientific research, research institutes, universities, authors
and readers?
What are the benefits of Open Access to [country-name]? First, [country-
92 Ten-Year Cross-Disciplinary Comparison of the growth of Open Access and How it Increases Research
Citation Impact. IEEE Engineering Bulletin, Vol.28 N.4, December 2005.
http://sites.computer.org/debull/A05dec/hajjem.pdf
http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/11688/.
93 Open Archives Initiative search engine (OAIster) http://oaister.umdl.umich.edu/o/oaister/.
94 BOAI (http://www.soros.org/openaccess/).
95 List of OA Resources from Workshop web site http://www.ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/OAworkshop2006/.
96 Salvador Declaration http://www.icml9.org/meetings/openaccess/public/documents/declaration.htm.
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