Faculty Senate endorses open access publishing

"In a vote at its December 7 meeting, the VCU [Virginia Commonwealth University] Faculty Senate passed the following resolution urging Promotion and Tenure Committees to consider the value of open access publishing in the evaluation of faculty scholarly efforts: ...Therefore, the Faculty Senate of Virginia Commonwealth University recommends: VCU Promotion and Tenure committees should recognize that publication and editorial effort in open access, peer-reviewed journals or republication of peer-reviewed articles in an open access repository offers added value and greater public good than scholarship made only available in expensive journal publications."