University of Hong Kong signs Open Choice agreement with Springer
The University of Hong Kong Libraries and Springer have announced their agreement that allows researchers at the affiliated institutions of The University of Hong Kong (HKU) to publish their research in Springer journals using Springer Open Choice at no additional cost to the researcher.
Springer’s Open Choice program offers full and immediate open access (free to the reader) for articles that are accepted for publication after a process of rigorous peer-review. Accepted HKU articles will appear as usual in Springer print journals, and will be published electronically using open access on SpringerLink, PubMed Central, and the HKU institutional repository, The HKU Scholars Hub. This pilot project is running from March 2010 to March 2011. The idea is one that may well interest both publishing and institutional policymakers.