Postdoc brings open access issue to the table | Cornell Chronicle

" ... Many feel that such research – often paid for at least in part by public money – should be freely available to all inquiring minds, not just paid subscribers. Among them is Cornell postdoctoral research associate Jimmy O’Dea. When he’s not conducting research with professor John Marohn on improving fuel cells, O’Dea is lobbying for Cornell research publications to be entirely open access. He, along with two graduate students, were primarily responsible for bringing the issue to light in a resolution recently approved by the University Assembly. This past spring, the UA passed a resolution establishing a committee to study how an open-access policy at Cornell would work. Such a policy would allow the university and its researchers to retain some distribution rights to their published work and to upload them to public databases, though the journals would still own the copyright. Cornell would follow nearly 40 other universities that have adopted such policies in the past several years ..."