Policies

Policy Statement

Whereas: Busitema University strives to promote industrialization and sustainable development through inclusive high-quality training, quality research, and outreach.
Whereas: The Staff of Busitema University is committed to disseminating its research and scholarship as widely as possible.
Whereas: This research and scholarship benefits the University, Country, region, and the rest of the world.
Whereas: Open access allows for the greatest dissemination of research and scholarship.
Whereas: The Staff recognizes the benefits that accrue to them as individual scholars and to the scholarly enterprise from such wide dissemination, including greater recognition, more thorough review, consideration and critique, and a general increase in scientific, scholarly and critical knowledge.
Whereas: The Intellectual Property Policy and the Research and Grants Management Policy at Busitema University affirm that Staff retain “copyright rights to academic copyrightable works”.
Whereas: The Government of Uganda has expressed interest in the practices on Open Access in higher education institutions through Uganda National Council for Science and Technology.
Whereas: Busitema University Library endorsed the UNESCO Open Access Policy as an acceptable basis for the Busitema University's own policy.
Be It Resolved that the Staff at Busitema University adopts and implements the following policy on Open Access as approved by the University Council on the 31st March 2023