Information Wants To Be Sustainable | HASTAC

From Cathy Davidson, co-chair of Duke's Digital Futures Taskforce. "[W]hat does Duke's proposed Open Access policy look like and why am I supporting it so vehemently? At this writing, we propose that the final draft of any article written by a Duke faculty member...be made available in pdf form and archived in a repository at Duke...yes, for free. This means that the fruits of our collective research can be made available to the world, even if the actual citational final paginaged publication copyright will still reside with the publisher. With modifications offered by Duke faculty in the various forums and committees to which we've now presented this policy, our Open Access policy is roughly similar to the ones already accepted at Harvard, Stanford, MIT, the University of Kansas, and a number of other public and private institutions...."