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institute news 27summer 2016 + optionswww.iiasa.ac.at news at iiasa Open access @ IIASA In January 2016 IIASA launched an open access policy, with the aim of making more research publications available online for free. It is now mandatory for IIASA researchers to deposit a version of scholarly papers in the institute’s repository and make them freely accessible. As part of this new commitment the IIASA library team have developed and launched a new Publications Repository— PURE—which also contains all of the historic data from the previous IIASA publications catalog. Even if a paper is published in a subscription journal or conference proceedings volume, it is still possible, in most cases, to make a copy of it freely available. Whenever permitted, visitors to the IIASA website will now find not only a reference but also a version of the document available for download. The new policy reflects the institute’s commitment to advancing open access to scholarly publications, as a signatory to the Berlin  Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities. The digital revolution has made a large body of information accessible all over the world, but in many cases this has excluded academic papers. The aim of the new open access policy is to make sure that copies of IIASA publications as of 2016 are available free of charge on the internet. IIASA library staff members are also working on collecting versions of previously published papers to further enrich the institute’s digital collection. PB www.iiasa.ac.at/news/OpenAccess-16 pure.iiasa.ac.at Water Program leadership IIASA has made two new senior appointments to boost the leadership of the Water Program. Simon Langan, a British water expert previously at the International Water Management Institute in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, has been named as Water Program director, effective from 1 May 2016. The new deputy program director will be Yoshi Wada, a Japanese hydrologist who received his PhD in the Netherlands. Wada  joined IIASA from the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies and The Earth Institute at Columbia University in 2016. His  expertise lies in global water modeling and the links between water, climate, and society. Together the two researchers bring new leadership, international perspective, and complementary expertise in integrated water modeling to the Water Program, which was founded in 2013 with the start of the Water Futures and Solutions initiative. Under the leadership of Acting Program Director Bill  Cosgrove, and former Water Program Director David Wiberg, the  initiative laid the groundwork for a new set of water scenarios that combine input from research, policy, and civil society to build scientific evidence to promote global  water security. “The importance of water, how it is allocated and managed at global and regional scales is fundamental to the future wellbeing and economic stability of society. The water program in a first phase has examined future water security under a range of socioeconomic scenarios used by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. I am looking forward to working with stakeholders at global and local scales to identify policy options and technical solutions to achieve water‑dependent Sustainable  Development Goals,” says Langan. “Water crises such as water scarcity and groundwater depletion are not just a problem just for one part of the world. In our globalized world connected via food trade, local water management has global impacts, and global developments have local impacts. Planning water systems without consideration of the larger system could result in missed synergistic opportunities, efficiencies, or lost investments. It is important to keep global thinking in order to implement local management options. We need cross‑cutting, community‑scale efforts and policy development for a sustainable global water future,” added Wada. PB www.iiasa.ac.at/news/wat-leadership Simon Langan Director, IIASA Water Program Yoshi Wada Deputy Director, IIASA Water Program