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Open Doors and Open Minds: What Faculty Authors Can Do to Ensure Open Access to Their Work Through Their Institution

ckeller — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 16:29:28 -0500

Recently, on February 12, 2008, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) at Harvard University took a landmark step. The faculty voted to adopt a policy requiring that faculty authors send an electronic copy of their scholarly articles to the university’s digital repository and that faculty authors automatically grant copyright permission to the university to archive and to distribute these articles unless a faculty member has waived the policy for a particular article. Essentially, the faculty voted to make open access to the results of their published journal articles the default policy for the Faculty of Arts and Sciences of Harvard University.

Inspired by the example set by the Harvard faculty, this White Paper is addressed to the faculty and administrators of academic institutions who support equitable access to scholarly research and knowledge, and who believe that the institution can play an important role as steward of the scholarly literature produced by its faculty. This paper discusses both the motivation and the process for establishing a binding institutional policy that automatically grants a copyright license from each faculty member to permit deposit of his or her peer-reviewed scholarly articles in institutional repositories, from which the works become available for others to read and cite.

Faculty Attitudes and Behaviors Regarding Scholarly Communication:Survey Findings from the University of California

ckeller — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 16:37:08 -0500

This paper reports the results of over 1,100 responses to a late 2006 survey of UC faculty attitudes and behavior with regard to several key issues in scholarly publishing and scholarly communication. The report is timed to inform Universitywide discussions - many of them prompted by a series of faculty white papers - about strategic responses to challenges and opportunities in the evolution of scholarly publishing and communication. The survey also provides important insight into how the University's eScholarship publishing services (including those offered in partnership with the UC Press) can meet faculty needs.

Institutional Repositories: Evaluating the Reasons for Non-use of Cornell University's Installation of DSpace

drupal — Thu, 03 May 2007 16:47:52 -0500

This article reports on a three-part evaluative study of institutional repositories. We describe the contents and participation in Cornell's DSpace and compare these results with seven university DSpace installations. Through in-depth interviews with eleven faculty members in the sciences, social sciences and humanities, we explore their attitudes, motivations, and behaviors for non-participation in institutional repositories.

Campus Copyright Rights and Responsibilities: A Basic Guide to Policy Considerations

drupal — Fri, 16 Dec 2005 15:03:21 -0600

The American Association of Universities produced a new white paper designed to help colleges and universities navigate copyright issues. "Campus Copyright Rights and Responsibilities: A Basic Guide to Policy Considerations" presents information on copyright law and how it applies to traditional published works, digital materials, educational materials produced on campus, and library usage of copyrighted material.

The Gatorade Fallacy

drupal — Thu, 10 Jun 2004 16:30:08 -0500

This article discusses the issue of who owns online courses and course materials? Faculty or the University?

The Rights Stuff: Ownership in the Digital Academy

drupal — Thu, 10 Jun 2004 16:38:11 -0500

Drawing on examinations of intellectual property policies at some thirty North American institutions and interviews with faculty, administrators and legal counsel, The Rights Stuff cuts to the heart of the controversy to determine what is at stake for creators of intellectual property and for the institutions that employ them.

Ownership of Copyrighted Works Created at or in Affiliation with the Univeristy of Michigan

drupal — Wed, 01 Oct 2003 11:54:33 -0500

This policy applies to works produced by University faculty, staff, students, other members of the University community, and contractors.