Fwd: Harvard faculty passes open access requirement

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Wade KOTTER

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Feb 13, 2008, 9:01:10 AM2/13/08

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>>> On 2/13/2008 at 4:56 AM, in message
<E9394D52-2A22-4CCA...@oberlin.edu>, Ray English
<Ray.E...@oberlin.edu> wrote:
> The Chronicle of Higher Education
> February 12, 2008
> Harvard Faculty Adopts Open-Access Requirement
>
> Harvard University*s Faculty of Arts and Sciences adopted a policy

> this evening that requires faculty members to allow the university to

> make their scholarly articles available free online.
>
> Peter Suber, an open-access activist with Public Knowledge, a
> nonprofit group in Washington, said on his blog that the new policy

> makes Harvard the first university in the United States to mandate
> open access to its faculty members* research publications.
>
> Stuart M. Shieber, a professor of computer science at Harvard who
> proposed the new policy, said after the vote in a news release that

> the decision *should be a very powerful message to the academic
> community that we want and should have more control over how our work

> is used and disseminated.*
>
> The new policy will allow faculty members to request a waiver, but
> otherwise they must provide an electronic form of each article to the

> provost*s office, which will place it in an online repository.
>
> The policy will allow Harvard authors to publish in any journal that

> permits posting online after publication. According to Mr. Suber,
> about two-thirds of pay-access journals allow such posting in online