December 8, 2009
The University of Ottawa is the first Canadian university to adopt a comprehensive open access program that supports free and unrestricted access to scholarly research.
The University's new program includes:
• a commitment to make the University's scholarly publications available online at no charge through the University's repository, uO Research;
• an author fund to help researchers defray open access fees charged by publishers;
• a fund to support the creation of digital educational materials organized as courses and available to everyone online at no charge ;
• support for the University of Ottawa Press's commitment to publishing a collection of open access books; and
• a research grant to support further research on the open access movement.
The University of Ottawa also becomes the first Canadian university to join the Compact for Open-Access Publishing Equity (COPE),
