Middle East Technical University

In compliance with the principle of sharing scientific research results, electronic versions of Masters and Ph.D. theses of Middle East Technical University are open to national and international access. Based on the Berlin Declaration (Berlin, October 2003) http://www.zim.mpg.de/openaccess-berlin/berlindeclaration.html and the Berlin 3 Open Access recommendations (Southampton, March 2005) http://www.eprints.org/events/berlin3/outcomes.html the University to -- Require their researchers to deposit a copy of all their Masters and Ph.D. theses, published and refereed articles in the Institutional Repository of Middle East Technical University, if there are no legal objections, -- Encourage and support their authors to publish their research articles in open access journals where a suitable journals exist and provide the support to enable that to happen.