Faculty, Contributed by Organizations or Campuses, and Institutional Repositories
Open Doors and Open Minds: What Faculty Authors Can Do to Ensure Open Access to Their Work Through Their Institution
| Title: | Open Doors and Open Minds: What Faculty Authors Can Do to Ensure Open Access to Their Work Through Their Institution (ID: CSD5385) | | Source: | Science Commons, SPARC | | Origin: | Contributed by Organizations or Campuses (04/24/2008) | | Type: | Articles, Papers, and Reports | | Abstract: | 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. | | View this resource: | |
Understanding Faculty to Improve Content Recruitment for Institutional Repositories
| Title: | Understanding Faculty to Improve Content Recruitment for Institutional Repositories (ID: CSD3703) | | Author(s): | Nancy Fried Foster (University of Rochester) and Susan Gibbons (University of Rochester) | | Source: | D-Lib Magazine | | Origin: | Contributed by Organizations or Campuses (2005) | | Type: | Articles, Papers, and Reports | | Abstract: | "With the generous funding of a 2003 Institute of Museum and Library Services, National Leadership grant, the University of Rochester, River Campus Libraries endeavored to explore the apparent misalignment between the benefits and services of an IR with the actual needs and desires of faculty. Specifically, the grant sought to understand the current work practices of faculty in different disciplines in order to see how an IR might naturally support existing ways of work. This yearlong research has revealed some of the reasons why current IR systems are more useful to faculty in theory than in practice and has resulted in modifications to the University of Rochester's implementation of the DSpace code [7] to better align the repository with the existing work practices of faculty. Moreover, the findings have caused a complete rethinking of how we should explain and promote our IR." | | View this resource: | |
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