Scholarly Communications   Tags: copyright, digital_libraries, open_access  

The Harvard Graduate School of Education faculty have adopted an open access policy. (Thanks to Open Access News.)
The faculty of the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) voted overwhelmingly at its last faculty meeting to allow the university to make all faculty members' scholarly articles publicly available online. The resolution makes HGSE the fourth of Harvard's 10 schools to endorse open access to faculty research publications. The Faculties of Arts and Sciences, the Harvard Law School, and the Harvard Kennedy School all passed similar policies in recent months. . . . HGSE faculty will now provide their scholarly articles to the Harvard Office for Scholarly Communication for deposit in an open access digital repository that is currently under development. When the repository launches later this year, the contents will be freely available to the public, unless an author chooses to embargo or block access....

SCOAP: A consortium facilitates Open Access publishing in High Energy Physics by re-directing subscription money. This answers the request of the High Energy Physics community.

The nature of the scholarly communication system is in flux - here we list four major sources of information and discussion regarding changes in scholarly communication and publishing.

• Creating Change (http://www.createchange.org) Create Change was developed by the Association of Research Library and SPARC (Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition) and is supported by the Association of College and Research Libraries.

• Cornell: Transforming Scholarly Communication (http://www.library.cornell.edu/scholarlycomm/)

• Stanford
  (http://library.stanford.edu/scholarly_com/)

• University of California, San Francisco (http://www.library.ucsf.edu/research/scholcomm/scholcommatrisk.html)

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