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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
<http://www.earlham.edu/%7Epeters/fos/fosblog.html>  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
repositories. -Lila Guterman

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