Re: Harvard Faculty Adopts OA Requirement

["Anthony Watkinson" <anthony.watkinson@btopenworld.com>]

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" <sgt3@psu.edu>
To: <liblicense-l@lists.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