Open Access – Making Research Available via the EUI Repository, Cadmus EUI Repository Manager | Lotta Svantesson Open Access (OA), a new alternative for scholarly communication, is about unlocking the full value of science and research to all, without boundaries. It is usually defined as ‘the free, immediate, online access to the results of scholarly research, and the right to use and re-use those results as you need’. Open Access has two main vehicles: (1) Institutional and Subject-related Repositories and (2) Open Access journals. This article focuses on Open Access at the EUI, and especially on the EUI institutional research repository, Cadmus. Open Access at the EUI It is essential for an institution such as the EUI, whose main academic activity is research at various levels (doctoral, post-doctoral, applied and advanced), to record the research output of its members. On the one hand for the purpose of demonstrating precisely what we do, and on the other, to communicate and disseminate our research to the global community of scholars. In its Code of Good Practice in Academic Research, adopted in 2010, the Institute declared that ‘the EUI supports the principle of Open Access (OA) and invites its members to facilitate the widespread dissemination of their published research by reporting and depositing their publications with the Institutional Repository of the EUI (Cadmus)’. The Code states that the EUI supports the goal of OA for research institutions (SPARC, Berlin Declaration, OpenAIRE, European Research Council) and supports practices that will lead to the widest and least costly dissemination of the research publications of its members…to scholars, policy-makers, opinion formers and the interested public, especially in Europe. Such dissemination makes the publicly funded research available and guarantees the preservation of research output for future generations. It also complies with conditions of research funding stipulated by funding sources such as the EC Framework Programme and the European Research Council.
and to upload the full-text as far as compatible with their publishing contracts. There is also a specific recommendation for EUI graduates to deposit a digital copy of their theses for preservation purposes. Moreover, all researchers are recommended to retain copyright in dealings with publishers.
The document makes recommendations and underlines the responsibilities of the Institute’s academic community, such as engaging in the process of publishing and disseminating their work. EUI members are requested to submit their publications to Cadmus
One of the milestones of the Open Access movement is the Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities of 22 October 2003. EUI President Josep Borrell signed the Declaration on 24 October 2011, making the EUI the 327th university }}
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