This is from Peter Suber's Open Access News:
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2005_04_03_fosblogarchive.html#a111283227548804497
University of Kansas resolution on open access
On March 10, the University of Kansas Faculty Senate unanimously
adopted a resolution supporting open access.
http://www.provost.ku.edu/policy/Scholarly%20Resolution/Scholarly%20Information%20Resolution.doc
Excerpt: 'The business practices of some journals and journal
publishers, moreover, are inimical to scholars' interests and
threaten to limit the promise of increased access inherent in digital
technologies. Development of university collections of scholarly
material is more and more constrained by the rising costs of journals
and the databases that index and aggregate those journals. Faculty,
staff, students, and university administrators must all take greater
responsibility for expanding access to scholarly information and
ensuring its long-term accessibility while maintaining scholarly
standards of quality. Therefore, the University of Kansas Faculty
Senate:...[3] Calls on all faculty of the University of Kansas to
seek amendments to publisher's copyright transfer forms to permit
the deposition of a digital copy of every article accepted by a
peer-reviewed journal into the ScholarWorks repository, or a similar
open access venue;...[5]
http://archives.eprints.org/eprints.php?url=http%3A%2F%2Fkuscholarworks.ku.edu
Encourages tenured faculty in particular to support journals (and
their publishers) whose pricing and accessibility policies are
consistent with continuing access to this literature through the
choices faculty make in the submission of papers, the allotment of
time to refereeing activities, and participation in editorial posts;
[6] Calls on University administrators and departmental, school,
college and University committees to reward efforts by faculty,
staff, and students to start or support more sustainable models for
scholarly communication, and to provide financial and material support
for organized activities initiated by faculty, staff, and students
that will ensure broad access to the scholarly literature;...[8]
Also calls on the University, professional scholarly associations,
and professional organizations of university administrators to
establish clear guidelines for merit salary review, peer evaluation
on federal grants, and promotion and tenure evaluation of faculty
and staff that will allow the assessment of and the attribution of
appropriate credit for works published in such venues....'
In a March 25 memorandum explaining the resolution
http://www.provost.ku.edu/policy/Scholarly%20Resolution/Scholarly%20Information%20Resolution.doc
Provist David Shulenburger urged Kansas faculty to deposit
their research output in the institutional repository,
ScholarWorks.
http://kuscholarworks.ku.edu/
Excerpt: 'KU ScholarWorks, a digital repository, is
now available as a convenient site in which to place your published
work, working papers, datasets, and other original material. Items
placed in KU ScholarWorks will be archived permanently and will be
available to search engines like Google and Google Scholar. Many
studies --
http://opcit.eprints.org/oacitation-biblio.html --
demonstrate that articles that are available electronically are cited
in other publications at four or more times the frequency of works
that are not available electronically. It is in your interest and
the University's to populate KU ScholarWorks with a complete set of
KU faculty's scholarly output.' Shulenburger also suggests language
to use in a copyright transfer agreement to reserve the right to
deposit work in ScholarWorks. (Thanks to Richard Fyffe.)
Posted by Peter Suber at 7:33 PM.
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2005_04_03_fosblogarchive.html#a111283227548804497
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I would add only two points:
(1) For 92% of Kansas University refereed journal article output it is not
even necessary "to seek amendments to publisher's copyright transfer
forms to permit the deposition of a digital copy of every article
accepted by a peer-reviewed journal into the ScholarWorks repository"
[3] because 92% of journals already permit it:
http://romeo.eprints.org/stats.php
(2) Kansas University's new self-archiving policy will help to
encourage the adoption of similar policies by other universities if it
is also registered and described in the Registry of Institutional OA
Self-Archiving Policies:
http://www.eprints.org/signup/sign.php
http://www.eprints.org/signup/fulllist.php
Stevan Harnad
AMERICAN SCIENTIST OPEN ACCESS FORUM:
A complete Hypermail archive of the ongoing discussion of providing
open access to the peer-reviewed research literature online (1998-2005)
is available at:
http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/
To join or leave the Forum or change your subscription address:
http://amsci-forum.amsci.org/archives/American-Scientist-Open-Access-Forum.html
Post discussion to:
american-scientist-open-access-forum_at_amsci.org
UNIVERSITIES: If you have adopted or plan to adopt an institutional
policy of providing Open Access to your own research article output,
please describe your policy at:
http://www.eprints.org/signup/sign.php
UNIFIED DUAL OPEN-ACCESS-PROVISION POLICY:
BOAI-1 ("green"): Publish your article in a suitable toll-access journal
http://romeo.eprints.org/
OR
BOAI-2 ("gold"): Publish your article in a open-access journal if/when
a suitable one exists.
http://www.doaj.org/
AND
in BOTH cases self-archive a supplementary version of your article
in your institutional repository.
http://www.eprints.org/self-faq/
http://archives.eprints.org/
Received on Thu Apr 07 2005 - 17:17:43 BST