Services like ORCA - Online Research @Cardiff are being developed by academic and research institutions worldwide, in order to make research publications more widely available. By compliance with a standard protocol, the Open Archive Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting, it is possible for all repostitories to be searched from a single point. Distributed institutional and disciplinary repositories can all be searched as if they were one, using search engines such as Google Scholar or OAISter.
JISC Open Access Briefing Paper Version 2 September 2006
Research Councils UK Position Statement on Access to Research Outputs
Wellcome Trust Position Statement in Support of Open and Unrestricted Access to Published Research
House of Commons Science and Technology Committee Report: Scientific Publications: Free for all?
Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities
ORCA - Online Research @Cardiff is not intended to be a substitute for peer-reviewed journals, but has been developed to host work by Cardiff University researchers that has already been, or will be, published elswhere.
Any correspondence concerning this specific repository should be sent to orca@cardiff.ac.uk.
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