>> Stuart M. Shieber, a professor of computer science
at Harvard,
>> . . . that we want and should have more control
over how our
>> work is used . . .
Let us only hope that he was misquoted.
- Laval Hunsucker
Universiteitsbibliotheek U. van Amsterdam
________________________________
From: owner-liblicense-l lists.yale.edu on behalf of
Anthony Watkinson
Sent: Thu 2/14/2008 12:17 AM
To: liblicense-llists.yale.edu
Subject: Re: Harvard Faculty Adopts OA Requirement
I have googled to find the actual resolution that was voted
on
but to no avail though a lot of people seem to have
commented.
How do they know? There is mention of a waiver which is
presumably an opt-out but if there is a mandate and a waiver
is
that not a recommended but not mandated arrangement.
Scholars are
encouraged to deposit but they may decide not to - or is
this
something different?
Anthony Watkinson
----- Original Message -----
From: "Sandy Thatcher" <sgt3psu.edu>
To: <liblicense-llists.yale.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2008 11:52 AM
Subject: Re: Harvard Faculty Adopts OA Requirement
> I'm confused: the last paragraph talks about Harvard
authors
> publishing in journals that permit posting online AFTER
> publication. But isn't the Harvard policy to post
authors'
> articles BEFORE publication in journals? Do the Harvard
faculty
> know exactly what it is they voted for?
>
> Sandy Thatcher
> Penn State University Press
>
>
>>Chronicle of Higher Education
>>
>>February 12, 2008
>>Harvard Faculty Adopts Open-Access Requirement
>>
>>Harvard University's faculty this evening adopted a
policy 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 policy to the faculty, 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
the 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
>>repositories. --Lila Guterman
>>
>>copyright 2008 CHE
|
