...The language of the policy makes it clear that any request to opt out of the programme will be granted, says [Stuart Shieber, a computer scientist at Harvard, who proposed the new policy]. “If the author requests a waiver, the dean will provide a waiver,” he says....
[T]he university has not yet established a time limit for submission, nor have they defined what constitutes a ‘final’ draft of the paper. Harvard intends to establish an ‘office of scholarly communication’ to define these issues....
Posted by
Peter Suber at 2/15/2008 09:49:00 PM.
The open access movement:
Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature
on the internet. Making it available free of charge and
free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
Removing the barriers to serious research.
I recommend the OA tracking project (OATP) as the best way to stay on top of new OA developments. You can read the OATP feed on a blog-like web page or subscribe to it by RSS, email, or Twitter. You can also help build the feed by tagging new developments you encounter.
