** Apologies for Cross-Posting ** L'université du Québec à Montréal devint la premiére université nord-américaine à signer la déclaration de Berlin pour l'accès libre. The Université du Québec à Montréal has become the first North American University to sign the Berlin Declaration. http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2006_03_26_fosblogarchive.html#114390894155983163 http://www.zim.mpg.de/openaccess-berlin/signatories.html Berlin is a Declaration of principle. The next step is to put it into practice, which UQaM is likewise preparing to do shortly, by relaunching its Institutional Repository (version: http://eprints2.uqam.ca/ ) and it will soon be registering its institutional commitment in: http://www.eprints.org/openaccess/policysignup/ http://www.eprints.org/openaccess/policysignup/sign.php http://www.unites.uqam.ca/cnc/declaration.fr.html The rest of laggard North America is encouraged to hurry and follow suit: Europe is so far way ahead on this! Stevan Harnad AMERICAN SCIENTIST OPEN ACCESS FORUM: A complete Hypermail archive of the ongoing discussion of providing open access to the peer-reviewed research literature online (1998-2005) is available at: http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/ To join or leave the Forum or change your subscription address: http://amsci-forum.amsci.org/archives/American-Scientist-Open-Access-Forum.html Post discussion to: [log in to unmask] UNIVERSITIES: If you have adopted or plan to adopt an institutional policy of providing Open Access to your own research article output, please describe your policy at: http://www.eprints.org/signup/sign.php UNIFIED DUAL OPEN-ACCESS-PROVISION POLICY: BOAI-1 ("green"): Publish your article in a suitable toll-access journal http://romeo.eprints.org/ OR BOAI-2 ("gold"): Publish your article in a open-access journal if/when a suitable one exists. http://www.doaj.org/ AND in BOTH cases self-archive a supplementary version of your article in your institutional repository. http://www.eprints.org/self-faq/ http://archives.eprints.org/ http://openaccess.eprints.org/