The faculty of the University of Northern Colorado Libraries unanimously adopted this OA resolution on December 2, 2009. (Thanks to Jayati Chaudhuri and Wendy Highby.) Excerpt:
We, the faculty of University Libraries of the University of Northern Colorado (UNC) resolve the following:
To disseminate our scholarship as broadly as possible. We endeavor to make our scholarly work openly accessible in conformance with open access principles. Whenever possible, we make our scholarship available in digital format, online, free of charge, and free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
To deposit our scholarly work in our institutional repository, Digital UNC at the earliest possible opportunity.
To seek publishers whose policies allow us to make our research freely available online. When a publisher’s policies do not allow us to make our research freely available online, we resolve to engage in good faith negotiations with the publisher to allow deposit of peer-reviewed, pre- or post-print versions of our scholarly work in Digital UNC. This resolution, however, gives us the latitude and individual discretion to publish where we deem necessary, given our career goals, intended audience, and other reasonable factors....
Comment. By my count, this is the 5th OA policy adopted by library faculty and the 18th OA policy adopted by a unanimous faculty vote. Kudos to all involved.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 12/09/2009 07:43:00 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.
