On April 17, 2009, the Academic Council of Libraries and Cultural Resources at the University of Calgary adopted a mandate to deposit their scholarly output in Dspace, the University's open access scholarly repository. The repository has been in place since March 2003 and currently provides access to a broad range of scholarly output, including a growing collection of full text university theses.

This is the second Open Access mandate for an academic library, and the first for an academic library in Canada.

Read more about the mandate, including the draft guidelines.

You can learn more about Open Access in general from Peter Suber's website