UA Scholarly Work More Accessible After First Year of Open Access Policy | UA@Work

"The UA's Open Access Policy aims to expand access to the University's scholarly and research outputs by calling on UA faculty members to submit the final accepted manuscript of every article they publish to the UA Campus Repository.

Last week, faculty gathered to assess the impact the policy has had since the Faculty Senate approved it one year ago.   

Arum Park, assistant professor of classics, discussed her decision to move her articles from a for-profit platform to the UA Campus Repository. She said she had become concerned about the platform not only because some journals prohibited sharing manuscripts on it, but also because it was launching strategies to monetize scholarly work. At the same time, she said, she noticed that journal contracts often made exceptions for 'institutional repositories' – and so she set out to find the UA's."