CU Connections » With website, CU-Boulder opens up access to scholarly research

"Two of the top 10 most downloaded research papers from CU-Boulder’s digital institutional repository, called CU Scholar, discuss promoting sustainability at music events and the long-run impact of immigrants on native workers. But there are hundreds of other topics and items of research-oriented material available for viewing by the general public on the site since the campus adopted its open access policy. CU Scholar, which officially launched in October 2014, is a service of the University Libraries and provides free, global access to submitted scholarship created by campus-affiliated faculty and students. Although University Libraries previously had a repository of scholarly works, it was available only to certain paying participants. CU-Boulder’s open access push began several years ago at the grassroots level, said Jennifer Chan, assistant professor and scholarly communications librarian. But the open access movement officially began in Budapest, Hungary, in 2002 during a conference where the Budapest Open Access Initiative was drafted ..."