Open access to research

Yahoo! News Canada reports that Concordia is the only university across the nation to promote an open-access policy for research. The university is part of a 22-member coalition that includes Stanford to Harvard. "Our goal is to have all high quality, peer-reviewed research produced in universities free to the end-users," says Gerald Beasley, university librarian at Concordia. "We have a responsibility to make this information available." The announcement has also been reprised by College and Research Libraries News