Harvard Considers Freeing Profs Papers #
February 12th, 2008 | In Worth Knowing
I think this is a great idea and I’m rather ashamed that the movement toward it has been so slow. Here’s hoping they approve it.
Faculty members are scheduled to vote on a measure that would permit Harvard to distribute their scholarship online, instead of signing exclusive agreements with scholarly journals that often have tiny readerships and high subscription costs.
Although the outcome of Tuesday’s vote would apply only to Harvard’s arts and sciences faculty, the impact, given the university’s prestige, could be significant for the open-access movement, which seeks to make scientific and scholarly research available to as many people as possible at no cost.