Harvard Divinity School Faculty Votes for Open Access Policy

"The faculty of Harvard Divinity School (HDS) voted, in a meeting on November 15, to allow Harvard University to make electronic versions of their current scholarly articles available to the public. With the vote for open access, the Divinity School faculty joined five other Harvard schools in a commitment to disseminate faculty research and scholarship as widely as possible....Under the open access policy, HDS faculty authors retain copyright of their articles, but grant Harvard an automatic, nonexclusive license to open-access distribution, unless they choose to waive Harvard's license on a case-by-case basis, at their own discretion...."