Philip Young, The Serials Crisis and Open Access A White Paper for the Virginia Tech Commission on Research

"While open access is approached here from the problem of subscription inflation, it is important to recognize that open access is not merely a library issue, but affects the availability of research to current and future students and scholars....Faculty...[a]ctions can include mandating article archiving at the university, college, or department level, retaining rights through the use of author addenda or alternative licensing, and publishing in open access journals. To support faculty engagement in open access, universities can create open access funds and ensure alignment of tenure and promotion requirements. Services to save faculty time can include streamlined deposit of articles into digital archives, handling copyright and licensing issues, submitting articles to additional sites if requested, monitoring embargo periods, and generating statistics....Universities are beginning to renew the dissemination function as central to their mission...."