KAMDAR: Acting for Aaron and open access | Yale Daily News
peter.suber's bookmarks 2013-01-16
Summary:
"Yale is still conspicuously missing from the growing list of institutions that support‚ if not mandate‚ open-access policies. Last year I brought this issue up with Dr. Thomas Pollard, dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, and he assured me that a faculty committee was interested in open access and a “solution is in the pipeline.” If this is true, I applaud these efforts, but the relative silence over the past year is disconcerting. Maybe this was the wrong approach. Sure, an institutional policy would make Yale open-access friendly in one fell swoop, but even that means nothing without faculty support. So why not push the open-access movement at the faculty level? I encourage you, as students, to ask your professors to support open access...."