Fwd: SPARC AND SCIENCE COMMONS RELEASE GUIDE TO CREATING INSTITUTIONAL OPEN ACCESS POLICIES
Wade KOTTER
>>> On 4/29/2008 at 6:50 PM, in message
<C074ACCE-DFEA-445C...@oberlin.edu>, Ray English
<Ray.E...@oberlin.edu> wrote:
> For immediate release
> April 28, 2008
>
> For more information, contact:
>
> Jennifer McLennan, SPARC
> (202) 296-2296 ext. 121
> jenn...@arl.org
>
> Kaitlin Thaney, Science Commons
> (617) 395-7413
> kai...@creativecommons.org
>
>
> SPARC AND SCIENCE COMMONS RELEASE GUIDE TO CREATING INSTITUTIONAL OPEN
> ACCESS POLICIES
>
> New whitepaper offers ten simple steps to maximizing campus-wide
> research impact
>
> Washington, DC and Cambridge, MA - April 28, 2008 - SPARC and Science
> Commons have released "Open Doors and Open Minds: What faculty authors
> can do to ensure open access to their work through their institution."
> The new white paper assists institutions in adopting policies that
> ensure the widest practical exposure for scholarly works produced,
> such as that adopted by the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences in
> February.
>
> Co-authored by SPARC and Science Commons, "Open Doors and Open Minds"
> is a how-to guide for faculty, administrators, and advocates to
> formulate an institutional license grant that delivers open access to
> campus research outputs. Some institutions are considering such
> policies as they work to comply with new requirements for public
> access from national agencies including the U.S. National Institutes
> of Health.
>
> The white paper details the motivations behind the Harvard policy,
> offers a concise explanation of U.S. Copyright Law and how it relates
> to the scholarly publishing process, and makes specific suggestions
> for faculty and advocates to pursue a campus-wide policy. The guide
> offers a detailed plan of action, a series of institutional license
> options, and a 10-point list of actions for realizing a policy and
> adopting the right University License to meet the institution's
> particular needs.
>
> Three different licenses, which are granted to the institution by the
> author, are offered for consideration:
>
> Case 1. Broad license grant - a non-exclusive, perpetual, irrevocable,
> worldwide license to exercise all of the author's exclusive rights
> under copyright, including the right to grant sublicenses.
>
> Case 2. Intermediate license grant - involves license restrictions
> that modify the scope of the license grant in Case 1.
>
> Case 3. Narrow license grant - grants to the university only the right
> to deposit the article in the institutional repository, and to make it
> available through the repository Web site.
>
> The paper also recommends mandatory deposit of articles in
> institutional repositories. Mandatory deposit may be adopted
> regardless of the licensing policy chosen.
>
> "The Harvard policy is a recognition that the Internet creates
> opportunities to radically accelerate distribution and impact for
> scholarly works," said John Wilbanks, Vice President of Science at
> Creative Commons. "As more universities move to increase the reach of
> their faculty's work, it's important that faculty members have a clear
> understanding of the key issues involved and the steps along the path
> that Harvard has trail-blazed. This paper is a foundational document
> for universities and faculty to use as they move into the new world of
> Open Access scholarly works."
>
> "Everyone - faculty, librarians, administrators, and other advocates -
> has the power to initiate change at their institution," said Heather
> Joseph, Executive Director of SPARC. "By championing an open access
> policy, helping to inform your colleagues about the benefits of a
> policy change, and identifying the best license and most effective
> path to adoption, it can be done."
>
> "Open Doors and Open Minds" and the 10-step action list is openly
> available on the SPARC Web site at
> http://www.arl.org/sparc/publications/guides/opendoors_v1.shtml
> .
>
> For further details on the sponsors' advocacy and author rights
> programs, please visit SPARC at http://www.arl.org/sparc and Science
> Commons at http://www.sciencecommons.org.
>
> ##
>
> Science Commons
>
> Science Commons designs strategies and tools for faster, more
> efficient web-enabled scientific research. Science Commons identifies
> unnecessary barriers to research, crafts policy guidelines and legal
> agreements to lower those barriers, and develops technology to make
> research data and materials easier to find and use. The goal of
> Science Commons is to speed the translation of data into discovery and
> to unlock the value of research so more people can benefit from the
> work scientists are doing. Science Commons is online at
> http://www.sciencecommons.org
> .
>
> SPARC
>
> SPARC (Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition), with
> SPARC Europe and SPARC Japan, is an international alliance of more
> than 800 academic and research libraries working to create a more open
> system of scholarly communication. SPARC's advocacy, educational and
> publisher partnership programs encourage expanded dissemination of
> research. SPARC is on the Web at http://www.arl.org/sparc.
>
> --------------------------
> Jennifer McLennan
> Director of Communications
> SPARC
> (The Scholarly Publishing & Academic Resources Coalition)
> http://www.arl.org/sparc
> **************************
> Save the date: The SPARC Digital Repositories Meeting 2008
> November 17 18, 2008 | Baltimore, MD
> **************************
> (202) 296-2296 ext 121
> jenn...@arl.org
> For immediate release
> April 28, 2008
>
> For more information, contact:
>
> Jennifer McLennan, SPARC
> (202) 296-2296 ext. 121
> jenn...@arl.org
>
> Kaitlin Thaney, Science Commons
> (617) 395-7413
> kai...@creativecommons.org
>
>
> SPARC AND SCIENCE COMMONS RELEASE GUIDE TO CREATING INSTITUTIONAL OPEN
> ACCESS POLICIES
>
> New whitepaper offers ten simple steps to maximizing campus-wide
> research impact
>
> Washington, DC and Cambridge, MA - April 28, 2008 - SPARC and Science
> Commons have released "Open Doors and Open Minds: What faculty authors
> can do to ensure open access to their work through their institution."
> The new white paper assists institutions in adopting policies that
> ensure the widest practical exposure for scholarly works produced,
> such as that adopted by the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences in
> February.
>
> Co-authored by SPARC and Science Commons, "Open Doors and Open Minds"
> is a how-to guide for faculty, administrators, and advocates to
> formulate an institutional license grant that delivers open access to
> campus research outputs. Some institutions are considering such
> policies as they work to comply with new requirements for public
> access from national agencies including the U.S. National Institutes
> of Health.
>
> The white paper details the motivations behind the Harvard policy,
> offers a concise explanation of U.S. Copyright Law and how it relates
> to the scholarly publishing process, and makes specific suggestions
> for faculty and advocates to pursue a campus-wide policy. The guide
> offers a detailed plan of action, a series of institutional license
> options, and a 10-point list of actions for realizing a policy and
> adopting the right University License to meet the institution's
> particular needs.
>
> Three different licenses, which are granted to the institution by the
> author, are offered for consideration:
>
> Case 1. Broad license grant - a non-exclusive, perpetual, irrevocable,
> worldwide license to exercise all of the author's exclusive rights
> under copyright, including the right to grant sublicenses.
>
> Case 2. Intermediate license grant - involves license restrictions
> that modify the scope of the license grant in Case 1.
>
> Case 3. Narrow license grant - grants to the university only the right
> to deposit the article in the institutional repository, and to make it
> available through the repository Web site.
>
> The paper also recommends mandatory deposit of articles in
> institutional repositories. Mandatory deposit may be adopted
> regardless of the licensing policy chosen.
>
> "The Harvard policy is a recognition that the Internet creates
> opportunities to radically accelerate distribution and impact for
> scholarly works," said John Wilbanks, Vice President of Science at
> Creative Commons. "As more universities move to increase the reach of
> their faculty's work, it's important that faculty members have a clear
> understanding of the key issues involved and the steps along the path
> that Harvard has trail-blazed. This paper is a foundational document
> for universities and faculty to use as they move into the new world of
> Open Access scholarly works."
>
> "Everyone - faculty, librarians, administrators, and other advocates -
> has the power to initiate change at their institution," said Heather
> Joseph, Executive Director of SPARC. "By championing an open access
> policy, helping to inform your colleagues about the benefits of a
> policy change, and identifying the best license and most effective
> path to adoption, it can be done."
>
> "Open Doors and Open Minds" and the 10-step action list is openly
> available on the SPARC Web site at
> http://www.arl.org/sparc/publications/guides/opendoors_v1.shtml
> .
>
> For further details on the sponsors' advocacy and author rights
> programs, please visit SPARC at http://www.arl.org/sparc and Science
> Commons at http://www.sciencecommons.org.
>
> ##
>
> Science Commons
>
> Science Commons designs strategies and tools for faster, more
> efficient web-enabled scientific research. Science Commons identifies
> unnecessary barriers to research, crafts policy guidelines and legal
> agreements to lower those barriers, and develops technology to make
> research data and materials easier to find and use. The goal of
> Science Commons is to speed the translation of data into discovery and
> to unlock the value of research so more people can benefit from the
> work scientists are doing. Science Commons is online at
> http://www.sciencecommons.org
> .
>
> SPARC
>
> SPARC (Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition), with
> SPARC Europe and SPARC Japan, is an international alliance of more
> than 800 academic and research libraries working to create a more open
> system of scholarly communication. SPARC's advocacy, educational and
> publisher partnership programs encourage expanded dissemination of
> research. SPARC is on the Web at http://www.arl.org/sparc.
>
> --------------------------
> Jennifer McLennan
> Director of Communications
> SPARC
> (The Scholarly Publishing & Academic Resources Coalition)
> http://www.arl.org/sparc
> **************************
> Save the date: The SPARC Digital Repositories Meeting 2008
> November 17 18, 2008 | Baltimore, MD
> **************************
> (202) 296-2296 ext 121
> jenn...@arl.org
> For immediate release
> April 28, 2008
>
> For more information, contact:
>
> Jennifer McLennan, SPARC
> (202) 296-2296 ext. 121
> jenn...@arl.org
>
> Kaitlin Thaney, Science Commons
> (617) 395-7413
> kai...@creativecommons.org
>
>
> SPARC AND SCIENCE COMMONS RELEASE GUIDE TO CREATING INSTITUTIONAL OPEN
> ACCESS POLICIES
>
> New whitepaper offers ten simple steps to maximizing campus-wide
> research impact
>
> Washington, DC and Cambridge, MA - April 28, 2008 - SPARC and Science
> Commons have released "Open Doors and Open Minds: What faculty authors
> can do to ensure open access to their work through their institution."
> The new white paper assists institutions in adopting policies that
> ensure the widest practical exposure for scholarly works produced,
> such as that adopted by the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences in
> February.
>
> Co-authored by SPARC and Science Commons, "Open Doors and Open Minds"
> is a how-to guide for faculty, administrators, and advocates to
> formulate an institutional license grant that delivers open access to
> campus research outputs. Some institutions are considering such
> policies as they work to comply with new requirements for public
> access from national agencies including the U.S. National Institutes
> of Health.
>
> The white paper details the motivations behind the Harvard policy,
> offers a concise explanation of U.S. Copyright Law and how it relates
> to the scholarly publishing process, and makes specific suggestions
> for faculty and advocates to pursue a campus-wide policy. The guide
> offers a detailed plan of action, a series of institutional license
> options, and a 10-point list of actions for realizing a policy and
> adopting the right University License to meet the institution's
> particular needs.
>
> Three different licenses, which are granted to the institution by the
> author, are offered for consideration:
>
> Case 1. Broad license grant - a non-exclusive, perpetual, irrevocable,
> worldwide license to exercise all of the author's exclusive rights
> under copyright, including the right to grant sublicenses.
>
> Case 2. Intermediate license grant - involves license restrictions
> that modify the scope of the license grant in Case 1.
>
> Case 3. Narrow license grant - grants to the university only the right
> to deposit the article in the institutional repository, and to make it
> available through the repository Web site.
>
> The paper also recommends mandatory deposit of articles in
> institutional repositories. Mandatory deposit may be adopted
> regardless of the licensing policy chosen.
>
> "The Harvard policy is a recognition that the Internet creates
> opportunities to radically accelerate distribution and impact for
> scholarly works," said John Wilbanks, Vice President of Science at
> Creative Commons. "As more universities move to increase the reach of
> their faculty's work, it's important that faculty members have a clear
> understanding of the key issues involved and the steps along the path
> that Harvard has trail-blazed. This paper is a foundational document
> for universities and faculty to use as they move into the new world of
> Open Access scholarly works."
>
> "Everyone - faculty, librarians, administrators, and other advocates -
> has the power to initiate change at their institution," said Heather
> Joseph, Executive Director of SPARC. "By championing an open access
> policy, helping to inform your colleagues about the benefits of a
> policy change, and identifying the best license and most effective
> path to adoption, it can be done."
>
> "Open Doors and Open Minds" and the 10-step action list is openly
> available on the SPARC Web site at
> http://www.arl.org/sparc/publications/guides/opendoors_v1.shtml
> .
>
> For further details on the sponsors' advocacy and author rights
> programs, please visit SPARC at http://www.arl.org/sparc and Science
> Commons at http://www.sciencecommons.org.
>
> ##
>
> Science Commons
>
> Science Commons designs strategies and tools for faster, more
> efficient web-enabled scientific research. Science Commons identifies
> unnecessary barriers to research, crafts policy guidelines and legal
> agreements to lower those barriers, and develops technology to make
> research data and materials easier to find and use. The goal of
> Science Commons is to speed the translation of data into discovery and
> to unlock the value of research so more people can benefit from the
> work scientists are doing. Science Commons is online at
> http://www.sciencecommons.org
> .
>
> SPARC
>
> SPARC (Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition), with
> SPARC Europe and SPARC Japan, is an international alliance of more
> than 800 academic and research libraries working to create a more open
> system of scholarly communication. SPARC's advocacy, educational and
> publisher partnership programs encourage expanded dissemination of
> research. SPARC is on the Web at http://www.arl.org/sparc.
>
> --------------------------
> Jennifer McLennan
> Director of Communications
> SPARC
> (The Scholarly Publishing & Academic Resources Coalition)
> http://www.arl.org/sparc
> **************************
> Save the date: The SPARC Digital Repositories Meeting 2008
> November 17 18, 2008 | Baltimore, MD
> **************************
> (202) 296-2296 ext 121
> jenn...@arl.org
>
> Ray English
> Director of Libraries
> Oberlin College
> Phone: 440-775-8287
> Email: ray.e...@oberlin.edu