Bucknell Faculty Approves Open Access Policy

"On October 4, 2011, the faculty of Bucknell University approved an institutional policy on open access publishing. The policy reads as follows: 'The faculty of Bucknell University grant to Bucknell University limited use of their scholarly articles for the purpose of making these articles open access. Specifically, each faculty member grants Bucknell University a nonexclusive, paid-up, worldwide license for each of his or her scholarly articles for the purpose of making these articles openly accessible in an institutional repository, and grants Bucknell University permission to exercise all rights under copyright for this purpose, as well as to authorize other parties to do the same, provided that the articles are not sold for income or profit....Furthermore, the license granted to Bucknell University for an article will be automatically waived for any reason....' "