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Hokkaido University Open Access Policy

(Approval by Board of Executives on June 25, 2019)

Hokkaido University is committed to disseminating the fruits of its research and scholarship as widely as possible.In keeping with this commitment, Hokkaido University adopts the Open Access Policy, and dedicates itself to increasing knowledge, and contributing to regional and international societies.

Major revised points:

• As a general rule, all scholarly articles shall be made publicly available under the new policy except when deemed necessary and unavoidable. (in contrast to "strongly recommend" under the former policy)
• Author may choose methods for allowing access other than "HUSCAP: Hokkaido University Collection of Scholarly and Academic Papers". (e.g. an open access journal, an open access repository by an external organization, etc.)

• Hokkaido University Open Access Policy (PDF: in English, in Japanese)

• 北海道大学学術成果コレクション運用要項 (in Japanese)
• 北海道大学学術成果コレクション資料提供・公開細則 (in Japanese)
• 北海道大学学術成果コレクション利用細則 (in Japanese)

Why not publish your article online?

The Hokkaido University Collection of Scholarly and Academic Papers (HUSCAP) is an online system that comprehensively collects, preserves and disseminates, in digital form, research achievements such as papers produced by Hokkaido University's faculty members.

Why not publish your academic work online via HUSCAP to make it accessible to as many interested readers as possible?

How to deposit your work in HUSCAP

What kinds of works can be deposited?

Doctoral Dissertations in HUSCAP

References

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Most of large international publishers such as Elsevier and Springer and 94% of academic journals permit authors to share their article on institutional repository like HUSCAP (Survey by University of Nottingham).Since in many cases, authors can share only author's manuscript instead of final published version, submit your manuscript files for HUSCAP.
Some publishers for example, American Institute of Physics(AIP), American Physical Society(APS), IEEE, permit authors to share published PDF, and open access publishers like PLOS and BioMed Central publish articles under creative commons license (for example, CC-BY) therefore also authors can share published PDF.
In principle, HUSCAP team will check open access policy of each publisher, also you may check the policy by using following web sites.

• SHERPA/RoMEO - Publisher copyright policies & self-archiving （For International Journals）
• Society Copyright Policies in Japan （For Japanese Journals）

Further help and information

HUSCAP Team (Hokkaido University Library)
E-mail: huscap [at] lib.hokudai.ac.jp
Ext.: 4741, 4025