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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I am glad to see Harvard has decided to join what
is a well established movement in a number of universities. The University
of California system (including Berkeley, Davis, Irvine, Los Angeles, Riverside,
Santa Barbara, Santa Cruz and San Diego) create something similar about six
years ago. There are about 21,000 articles on the site:</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><A
href="http://repositories.cdlib.org/escholarship/">http://repositories.cdlib.org/escholarship/</A></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Happy hunting,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>shawn</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV>Shawn W. Rosenberg<BR>Director and Professor<BR>Graduate Program in
Political Psychology<BR>University of California, Irvine<BR>Faculty website:
<BR><A
href="http://www.faculty.uci.edu/profile.cfm?faculty_id=2469">http://www.faculty.uci.edu/profile.cfm?faculty_id=2469</A><BR>Program
websites: <BR><A
href="http://www.polisci.uci.edu/POLPSYGROUP.htm">http://www.polisci.uci.edu/POLPSYGROUP.htm</A><BR><A
href="http://aris.ss.uci.edu/polpsych/polpsych.html">http://aris.ss.uci.edu/polpsych/polpsych.html</A><BR></DIV>
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<A title=navdeep@iimahd.ernet.in href="mailto:navdeep@iimahd.ernet.in">Navdeep
Mathur</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [Interpretationandmethods]
Harvard to collect,disseminate scholarly articles for faculty</DIV>
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<DIV>This is an interesting news item found at:
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<DIV><STRONG><FONT size=4>Harvard to collect, disseminate scholarly articles
for faculty</FONT></STRONG></DIV>
<H3><FONT size=2>Legislation designed to allow greater worldwide
access</FONT></H3>
<P>By Robert Mitchell</P>
<P>FAS Communications</P>
<P>In a move to disseminate faculty research and scholarship more broadly, the
Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) voted Tuesday (Feb. 12) to give the
University a worldwide license to make each faculty member's scholarly
articles available and to exercise the copyright in the articles, provided
that the articles are not sold for a profit. </P>
<P>In proposing the legislation, Stuart M. Shieber, a professor at FAS, said,
"There is no question that scholarly journals have historically allowed
scholars to distribute their research to audiences around the world. But, the
scholarly publishing system has become far more restrictive than it need be.
Many publishers will not even allow scholars to use and distribute their own
work. And, the cost of journals has risen to such astronomical levels that
many institutions and individuals have cancelled subscriptions, further
reducing the circulation of scholars' works. </P>
<P>"This is a large and very important step for scholars throughout the
country. It should be a very powerful message to the academic community that
we want and should have more control over how our work is used and
disseminated," added Shieber, James O. Welch Jr. and Virginia B. Welch
Professor of Computer Science. </P>
<P>"The goal of university research is the creation, dissemination, and
preservation of knowledge. At Harvard, where so much of our research is of
global significance, we have an essential responsibility to distribute the
fruits of our scholarship as widely as possible," said Provost Steven E.
Hyman. "Today's action in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences will promote free
and open access to significant, ongoing research. It is a first step in the
creation of an open-access environment for current research that may one day
provide the widest possible dissemination of Harvard's distinguished
Faculties' work." </P>
<P>Harvard will take advantage of the license by hosting FAS faculty members'
scholarly articles in an open-access repository, making them available
worldwide for free. The faculty member will retain the copyright of the
article, subject to the University's license. The repository contents can be
made widely available to the public through such search engines such as Google
Scholar. Faculty members may request a waiver of the license for particular
articles where this is preferable. The new legislation does not apply to
articles completed before its adoption. </P>
<P>The repository, which will be supported and maintained by Harvard
University, will allow scholars and the general public from around the world
access to scholarly works of FAS faculty. This access will benefit scholars at
all research institutions, which have seen their ability to maintain
subscriptions to a full range of scholarly journals seriously compromised over
the past few years. Research centers in poorer countries have been especially
harmed by the access limitations caused by the high cost of many journals,
Shieber pointed out. </P>
<P>"Today's vote in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences," said Robert Darnton,
Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor and director of the University
Library, "addresses an issue that is of great concern to all of the Faculties
of the University. All of us face the same problems and all of us can envision
the public benefits of open access. Harvard Medical School, for example, is
already working with its faculty to comply with a congressional mandate that
articles based on funding from the National Institutes of Health be openly
accessible through PubMed Central. By working, as individual faculties and
together as a single University, we can all promote the free communication of
knowledge" </P>
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