Launch of AMUR and open access PhD theses mandate in Poland

Today, on March 26, Adam Mickiewicz University library in Poznan launched AMUR – Adam Mickiewicz University Repository. Among the repository collections – journals published at the University, PhD theses, research papers, conference presentations and learning materials. On November 20, 2009 the Rector of Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan issued an open access PhD theses mandate - the first in Poland. 

(Information from Open science blog)

You can download a case study of AMUR – Adam Mickiewicz University Repository – here  presented by Małgorzata Rychlik and Emilia Karwasińska at the Second International conference Open Access in Poland.

Earlier this year the Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences registered an open access institutional mandate – “All newly published manuscripts must be immediately deposited in the repository in the final reviewed version (not publisher's proprietary pdf). Deposits will become available immediately or after expiration of embargo, depending on publisher's policy.”