Harvard
- Feb, 2008: Harvard University Faculty of Arts and Sciences voted today 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.
- hosting articles in an open access repository, making them available worldwide for free. The faculty member will retain the copyright in the article, subject to the University's license. The repository contents can be made widely available to the public through such search engines 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.
- "The goal of university research is the creation, dissemination, and preservation of knowledge. " - Steven E. Hyman, Harvard provost
- "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," - Stuart M. Shieber (Computer Science professor)
- "the impact and citation of Harvard scholarship will increase because it is freely accessible... Harvard librarians will get greater expertise than exists at competing institutions at developing, managing, and adding value to the university's digital library," - Michael Carroll , Villanova
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