The senate of the university of St.Gallen has passed a resolution on Open Access policy on the 15th of December 2008. This resolution concretised the Open Access Policy passed on the 12th of November 2007. The resolution is organized into three parts; General rules, obligations of researchers and rights of researchers.
- Open Access:
Open access to the University of St. Gallen’s research and the thereby produced publications is guaranteed and supported within the legal framework.
- Provision of bibliographic data:
Bibliographic data for all final manuscripts (post-print) as well as all drafts of such manuscripts (pre-print) produced by researchers at the university of St. Gallen have to be published on the university’s institutional archive (Alexandria or EDIS for PhD dissertations)
- Guaranteeing the rights of use:
Researchers are obliged to, as much as possible, accommodate a non-exclusive right of use in their contracts with publishers to guarantee for the free electronic publication of the results of their research on the institutional archive of the university of St. Gallen. » Tools and instructions for authors on how to attain rights to self-archive.
- Providing full text:
Full texts have to be made available to the institutional archive once a manuscript has been accepted by a publisher and the publisher is permitting self-archiving of the “final manuscript” (post-print) or a working version (pre-print).
- Publication on the principle of open access:
The university is supporting its researchers to publish as open access.
The university of St. Gallen is offering an efficient repository for self-archiving research papers as well as dissertations in the form of the Alexandria and EDIS platforms.