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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

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