** Cross-Posted **

Peter Suber's OA News
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2007_08_05_fosblogarchive.html#929895517527601458
has just announced yet another very welcome and timely Green OA
Self-Archiving Mandate, this time from the Swiss National Science
Foundation (SNF) (Switzerland's second OA mandate: U. Zuerich was
the first).
     http://www.snf.ch/D/NewsPool/Seiten/news_070809_OpenAccess.aspx
That makes 14 University Mandates and 15 Funder Mandates adopted, and
more on the way.
     http://www.eprints.org/openaccess/policysignup/

The SNF mandate has only one (very easily remediable) bug: It allows publisher
embargoes, which is OK, but it should make it clear that the embargo
is only allowed for the date of setting access to the deposit as Open
Access, not for the date of the *deposit* itself, which should be immediately
upon acceptance for publication, with access, in case of embargo, set
as Closed Access. That way, each SNF author's Institutional Repository's
"Fair Use" Button can take care of all would-be users' access needs
during any Closed Access embargo period via semi-automated email eprint
requests to the author:
     http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/71-guid.html
     http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/274-guid.html

     From Peter Suber's Open Access News
     (Thanks to Susanne Goetker.)
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2007_08_05_fosblogarchive.html#929895517527601458

     Swiss National Science Foundation adopts an OA mandate

     Yesterday the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF) announced
     an OA mandate to take effect on September 1, Open Access: Der SNF
     erlaesst Weisung fuer die Umsetzung.
     http://www.snf.ch/D/NewsPool/Seiten/news_070809_OpenAccess.aspx

     The policy requires OA archiving for the results of SNF-funded
     research.  Grantees may deposit their work in institutional or
     disciplinary repositories, and must apparently respect any embargo
     imposed by their publisher.  The SNF does not have its own repository
     and does not apparently plan to launch one.

     The SNF encourages without requiring publication in an OA journal, and
     at least sometimes will pay the publication fees at fee-based OA
     journals.

     Comment.  Kudos to the SNF.  This will be a boon to Swiss
     research-authors and to all research-users.  It also comes at a good
     time, when both the US and the EU are considering OA mandates, and
     adds to the growing momentum for public funding agencies to mandate
     open access for publicly-funded research.

     From Peter Suber's Open Access News
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2007_08_05_fosblogarchive.html#929895517527601458