Faculty Approve Policy to Expand Access to UA Research | UANews

"Research done by University of Arizona faculty will be more available to the public because of an Open Access Policy passed by the UA's Faculty Senate on Monday. Faculty will be asked to submit the final accepted manuscripts of their scholarly articles to the UA Campus Repository. University Libraries, along with Faculty Senate leadership and the Office of the Provost, will be responsible for implementing the policy, which says that faculty members will grant the UA permission to make their articles available in the library's online Campus Repository — a digital collection of a variety of UA publications, including dissertations, yearbooks and others. The repository is accessible to anyone. In the past, faculty authors only published their research in journals that were accessible through a subscription fee. But open access journals have become more popular as a way of publishing research ..."