Harvard Releases an Individual Open-Access License for Non-Faculty Scholars

peter.suber's bookmarks 2018-10-22

Summary:

"The Harvard Library Office for Scholarly Communication is pleased to announce the launch of a new open-access license for all Harvard authors of scholarly articles.  

All Harvard schools have open-access policies granting certain non-exclusive rights to the University. These policies were adopted by faculty votes, and allow Harvard to make scholarly articles by faculty freely available to the world through DASH (Digital Access to Scholarship at Harvard), Harvard’s open-access repository. 

The new Individual Open-Access License (IOAL) gives Harvard’s non-faculty researchers the same benefits that the faculty policies give faculty. Under the voluntary IOAL, non-faculty authors grant to Harvard the same non-exclusive rights that faculty grant to Harvard under the school-level policies, and Harvard grants the same non-exclusive rights back to the authors. As a result, authors signing the IOAL will have more rights to reuse their own work than they receive under standard or even progressive publishing contracts...."

Link:

https://library.harvard.edu/about/news/2018-10-22/harvard-releases-individual-open-access-license-non-faculty-scholars

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Date tagged:

10/22/2018, 09:38

Date published:

10/22/2018, 05:48