The Rocky Way to Open Access
Christian Gumpenberger
Open Repositories, Southampton, April 2008

Novartis and Open Access
Novartis has so far supported the ‚Gold Road‘
• membership to BioMed Central (since 2003) and PLoS (since 2004)
• encouraging Novartis authors to publish in OA journals
• including > 200 OA journals in internal e-journals tool
still author uptake is low so far
currently ‚Green Road‘ deemed to be more successful
Source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/ahmedrabea/246570478/ Picture uploaded by Ahmed Rabea
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IR and the industry
„ ...while the key articles describing institutional repositories
relate to universities, any organization can adapt and adopt
the concept ...“
Drake Miriam A. (2004): Institutional Repositories â€