Support for the new OA policy at the ARC

The Queensland University of Technology Open Access to Knowledge Law Project has announced its support for the new OA policy at the Australian Research Council.  From yesterday's press release:

Moves to encourage legal open access to all research funded under the Australian Research Council's Discovery
Projects scheme are welcomed by Queensland University of Technology legal copyright academics.

Professor Brian Fitzgerald, who heads the Open Access to Knowledge (OAK) Law Project, funded by the Federal
Government and based at QUT, said the ARC had announced it would encourage researchers whose projects it
had funded to place data and publications in online, open repositories such as QUT's eprints.

He said researchers concerned about copyright issues when making their findings openly and easily accessible
according to ARC requirements would find a comprehensive guide to copyright management strategies in the OAK
Law Report published online this year.

"The OAK Law Report provides a blueprint for research copyright management that sets out the relevant stakeholders' copyright interests and ways to manage relationships between stakeholders to achieve effective open access....The copyright guidelines will provide examples of publishing agreements and model clauses consistent with open access principles," Professor Fitzgerald said....