Higher education institutions also need to consider the public interest, which demands that access be possible to research results. Those results have, after all, been produced with public funds. Many university institutions have therefore rallied round the banner of Open Access.
Institutions that wish to make their research results accessible via repositories need to formulate a policy on how they will do so.
This website provides the following information for such institutions:
- Notice and Takedown procedure.
This is a useful overview for institutions that already have a repository or that want to create one; it helps them establish a procedure for dealing with complaints.
- Open Access
More information about SURF and the ideas behind Open Access.