Faculty Senate approves open access, authors’ rights resolution

"The Faculty Senate unanimously voted last Wednesday to endorse giving University faculty members more rights to their published works and allowing those articles to be more accessible to the public. The Senate voted to do so through its Resolution on Scholarly Publication and Author’s Rights, which states that faculty members may provide electronic versions of their work for an open access electronic repository....The Open Access policy was a revision of a resolution on scholarly publications that was brought to the Faculty Senate last November, Task Force Chair Brian Pusser said. Originally, the resolution said participation would be mandatory by default but that faculty members could sign a waiver to opt out of it. The policy then was revised so that faculty members simply could decide if they wanted to contribute to the repository, Pusser said...."