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From: Peter Suber
Date: Thu, May 14, 2009 at 11:12 PM
Subject: [SOAF] First Humanities Departmental OA Mandate in the world
To: SPARC Open Access Forum <SPARC-OAForum_at_arl.org>
[Forwarding from David Wacks. --Peter Suber.]
On Wednesday, May 14th, by unanimous vote, the faculty of the
Department of Romance Languages at the University of Oregon adopted
an Open Access mandate (text below). This mandate is the first
(according to ROAR) such mandate in the world by any Department in
the Humanities and the 3rd in Oregon (after OSU Library faculty and
UO Library faculty). It is distinguished by the stipulation that URLs
of self-archived postprints are to be included in all materials
submitted to the Department for purposes of review and promotion.
14 May 2009
Eugene, Oregon
Resolved, that the UO Romance Languages Faculty adopts the following
policy in support of deposit of scholarly works in Scholars' Bank:
The Romance Languages Faculty of the University of Oregon are
committed to disseminating the fruits of their research and
scholarship as widely as possible. In keeping with that commitment,
the Faculty adopts the following policy:
Every Romance Language tenure-track faculty member is required to
self-archive in UO Scholars? Bank a postprint version of every
peer-reviewed article or book chapter published while the person is a
member of the Romance Languages faculty. The URLs of these postprints
will be included in all materials submitted internally to the Romance
Languages Department for purposes of review and promotion.
Self-archiving in UO Scholars? Bank means that each Romance Languages
faculty member gives to the University of Oregon nonexclusive
permission to use and make available that author's scholarly articles
for the purpose of open dissemination. Specifically, each Romance
Languages faculty member grants to the UO a Creative Commons
"Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States"
license to each of his or her scholarly articles. The license will
apply to all scholarly articles written while the person is a member
of the Romance Languages Faculty except for any articles accepted for
publication before the adoption of this policy and any articles for
which the Faculty member entered into an incompatible licensing or
assignment agreement before the adoption of this policy.
The Department of Romance Languages will waive application of the
policy for a particular article upon written notification by the
author, who informs the Department of the reason.
It is strongly recommended that faculty link publications listed on
their Departmental website faculty profile to the corresponding
self-archived postprints, and also that they self-archive postprints
of articles and book chapters published prior to the adoption of this
policy.
To facilitate distribution of the scholarly articles, as of the date
of publication, each faculty member will make available an electronic
copy of his or her final version of the article and full citation at
no charge to a designated representative of the UO Libraries in
appropriate formats (such as PDF) specified by the Libraries. After
publication, the University of Oregon Libraries will make the
scholarly article available to the public in the UO's institutional
repository.
David Wacks
Asst. Professor of Spanish
University of Oregon
Dept. Romance Languages
http://rl.uoregon.edu/people/faculty/profiles/wacks/index.php
twitter: davidwacks
Received on Fri May 15 2009 - 15:15:26 BST