creators_name: Sale, AHJ
creators_id: Arthur.Sale@utas.edu.au
type: other
datestamp: 2006-05-26
lastmod: 2008-07-18 09:40:51
metadata_visibility: show
title: Submission to the Australian Research Council - Funding Rules & Agreements
ispublished: unpub
subjects: 280100
full_text_status: public
monograph_type: NULL
keywords: ARC, open access, research impact, Australian, mandatory policies
abstract: The submission is addressed to making a change in the reporting requirements for all funded schemes, which will make it a requirement of receiving the grant to deposit an electronic copy of any refereed research journal or conference articles deriving from the grant with the institution administering the grant. Minor changes are needed in the Funding Rules and the Funding Agreements. Precise wording is supplied to eliminate any concerns by publishers and to make the implementation easy.

The benefits to Australia are that Australia's ARC publicly funded research is made visible to all through the Internet, and in the majority of cases publicly accessible. This will raise Australia's research impact and is consistent with Australia's espousal of a level playing field in the dissemination of research, and with activities currently underway or implemented in the USA, Canada, the United Kingdom, and the European Union.
date: 2006-05
date_type: published
publisher: Unpublished
institution: University of Tasmania
thesis_type: UNSPECIFIED
refereed: FALSE
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citation: Sale, AHJ (2006) Submission to the Australian Research Council - Funding Rules & Agreements. Unpublished. (Unpublished)
document_url: http://eprints.utas.edu.au/277/1/ARC_submission_v1.1.pdf