Open access policy adopted - The Daily Princetonian

Connotea Imports 2012-07-31

Summary:

"Last Monday, the University formally adopted a new policy of open access for Princeton-produced scholarly publications. This policy will authorize Princeton faculty members to post their published articles on their own websites, an online University repository or other free archives for the general public....The policy passed the Faculty Advisory Committee on Policy with a unanimous vote, and the proposal was approved on Sept. 19 by the general faculty without any changes....While science journals have generally adopted open-access into their business models, humanities publishers have not. In the committee, there was an initial worry that bypassing the scholarly peer-review process that journals facilitate, particularly in the humanities, could hurt the scholarly industry. At the end, however, the committee said they felt that granting the University non-exclusive rights would not harm the publishing system and would, in fact, give the University leverage in contract negotiations....Princeton faculty members can place online whatever version of an article they think is appropriate and compatible with the publication contract. Harvard’s model stipulates that the most recent version before copy-editing be posted. Princeton will be the sixth Ivy League school to adopt an open-access scholarship policy, joining Harvard, Columbia, the University of Pennsylvania, Cornell and Dartmouth. Other institutions with developed open-access policies include MIT, Duke, University of California, Berkeley and the University of Michigan...."

Link:

http://www.dailyprincetonian.com/2011/09/29/28869/

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Open Access Tracking Project (OATP) » Connotea Imports

Tags:

ru.no oa.new oa.mandates oa.disciplines oa.unanimity oa.princeton oa.policies

Authors:

petersuber

Date tagged:

07/31/2012, 12:29

Date published:

09/29/2011, 07:39