Arizona Daily Wildcat :: UA plans to expand the accessibility of faculty research

"The UA is a Tier-1 research institution that receives around $650 million in research funding per year. It's even ranked No. 2 on the admissions top-10 reasons to attend the UA list, but that research wasn't openly available to everyone — until now. The UA Faculty Senate approved a new policy earlier this month that will expand access to UA research. UA Faculty Chair and regents professor in the psychology department Lynn Nadel said the purpose of this policy is to make research more accessible by setting up and maintaining an archive or repository, so everyone can have access to research that faculty members publish. ... 'Under the policy, UA faculty members continue to choose the journals in which they publish and the policy expresses an expectation that they also deposit the final accepted manuscript versions of those articles into the UA Campus Repository, through which they will made made freely accessible to the public on the web,' Sutton said. 'If the journal publisher only allows public access to these manuscript versions after a set amount of time — an embargo — then access is delayed until the embargo expires.' ..."