GSE students adopt open access policy for scholarship | Stanford Graduate School of Education

abernard102@gmail.com 2013-07-31

Summary:

"In a move to expand public access to academic research on education issues, doctoral students at the Stanford Graduate School of Education have voted in favor of an open access policy to make their scholarly articles available for free to scholars, educators, policymakers and the public worldwide. 'By voting overwhelmingly in favor of open access, GSE students are sending a clear message that the closed model of scholarly communications will need to change as they enter the professoriate,' said Juan Pablo Alperin, a GSE doctoral student who introduced the motion to the GSE Student Guild before the end of the academic year.  'We hope our lead will encourage others — especially those working in areas of such public importance as education — to open their research more widely.' Approved by GSE doctoral students in late May, the new policy requires students to make their scholarly articles publicly available through the Stanford GSE Open Archive, an online repository of working papers, published articles and other materials produced by faculty, staff and students. The contents of the archive are searchable and available to such search engines as Google Scholar. The policy requires authors to give Stanford University a worldwide, nonexclusive license to exercise the copyright of their scholarly articles as long as the articles are properly attributed to the authors and are not sold for a profit. Students may request a waiver of the policy for particular articles only if the publisher refuses to agree to the conditions of the policy. The GSE student adoption of the open access policy comes at a time of growing concern that trends in the scholarly publishing system, including the dramatic increases in the costs of journals, are not ensuring maximum public access to current research ..."

Link:

https://ed.stanford.edu/news/gse-students-adopt-open-access-policy-scholarship

Updated:

07/31/2013, 07:11

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Date tagged:

07/31/2013, 07:42

Date published:

07/25/2013, 07:11