SUHF:s (Sveriges universitets- och högskoleförbund) styrelse antog vid sitt möte den 8 juni 2005 rekommendationer med anledning av undertecknandet av Berlindeklarationen.
1. Införa en policy som starkt rekommenderar att deras forskare deponerar en kopia av varje publicerad artikel i ett öppet, digitalt arkiv och
2. Uppmuntra forskarna att publicera sina forskningsartiklar i fritt tillgängliga vetenskapliga tidskrifter när en lämplig sådan existerar och ge det stöd som krävs för att detta ska vara möjligt.
Bakgrund
Berlindeklarationen innebär:
â?¢ encouraging our researchers/grant recipients to publish their work according to the principles of the open access paradigm.
â?¢ encouraging the holders of cultural heritage to support open access by providing their resources on the Internet.
â?¢ developing means and ways to evaluate open access contributions and online-journals in order to maintain the standards of quality assurance and good scientific practice.
â?¢ advocating that open access publication be recognized in promotion and tenure evaluation.
â?¢ advocating the intrinsic merit of contributions to an open access infrastructure by software tool devel-opment, content provision, metadata creation, or the publication of individual articles
Under våren 2005 antogs två rekommendationer:
In order to implement the Berlin Declaration institutions should:
1. implement a policy to require their researchers to deposit a copy of all their published articles in an open access repository and
2. encourage their researchers to publish their research articles in open access journals where a suitable journal exists and provide the support to enable that to happen.