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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 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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