A Student-Led Movement for a University Open Access Policy

"Having been a supporter of open access to research and scholarship for a dozen years now, I sometimes think that I have seen it all, from brilliant strategies to collegial indifference. Thus my surprise and delight, when I recently had the chance to meet Goldis Chami and Gordana Panic at the University of British Columbia to talk about their efforts, as students, to bring about open access to the work published by faculty and graduate students at UBC....They are focusing their efforts on the faculty adoption of an open access policy. Such open access policies have been passed by faculty members at Harvard, Stanford, Concordia, MIT, and elsewhere...."