The Columbia Statement, like the NIH Policy, provides an excellent model
*not* to follow! If you want a model for a university open access policy,
it should rather be that of Kansas University:
http://www.eprints.org/signup/fullinfo.php?inst=University%20of%20Kansas
though even that is far, far too wordy, and includes far, far too many empty
platitudes. All that is needed is the concrete core policy: (1) require OA
self-archiving of all university research journal article output and
(2) recommend/support publishing in OA journals, exactly as recommended
by Berlin-3:
http://www.eprints.org/berlin3/outcomes.html
"The University of Kansas Senate... Calls on all faculty of the
University of Kansas to [seek amendments to publisher's copyright
transfer forms to permit the] {1} deposit[ion of] a digital copy
of every article accepted by a peer-reviewed journal into the
ScholarWorks repository, or a similar open access venue... {and}
to {2} invest in the infrastructure necessary to support new venues
for peer-reviewed publication"
The part in square brackets is also 92% superfluous:
http://romeo.eprints.org/stats.php
Stevan Harnad
AMERICAN SCIENTIST OPEN ACCESS FORUM:
A complete Hypermail archive of the ongoing discussion of providing
open access to the peer-reviewed research literature online (1998-2005)
is available at:
http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/
To join or leave the Forum or change your subscription address:
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Post discussion to:
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UNIVERSITIES: If you have adopted or plan to adopt an institutional
policy of providing Open Access to your own research article output,
please describe your policy at:
http://www.eprints.org/signup/sign.php
UNIFIED DUAL OPEN-ACCESS-PROVISION POLICY:
BOAI-1 ("green"): Publish your article in a suitable toll-access journal
http://romeo.eprints.org/
OR
BOAI-2 ("gold"): Publish your article in a open-access journal if/when
a suitable one exists.
http://www.doaj.org/
AND
in BOTH cases self-archive a supplementary version of your article
in your institutional repository.
http://www.eprints.org/self-faq/
http://archives.eprints.org/
> Begin forwarded message:
>
> From: Ray English <Ray.English_at_oberlin.edu>
> Date: April 28, 2005 1:13:21 PM PDT
> To: "ACRL Scholarly Communication T.F." <SCHOLCOMM_at_ala.org>
> Subject: Columbia Univ Senate Endorsed Open Access
> Reply-To: Ray.English_at_oberlin.edu
>
> Columbia University Senate Endorses Resolution on Open Access and Scholarly
> Communication
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> (NEW YORK, April 21, 2005) The Columbia University Senate endorsed
> unanimously a resolution on “Open Access” at its meeting on April 1, 2005.
> The resolution was introduced by the Senate’s Committee on Libraries and
> Academic Computing.
>
> James Neal, Vice President for Information Services and University
> Librarian at Columbia, applauded “this bold support by the Columbia
> community for open access to scholarly work and this endorsement of the
> University’s advocacy for reducing economic, legal, and technological
> barriers.”
>
> The text of the resolution follows:
>
> Whereas the Senate is empowered by University statutes §23 (c) and (e) to
> “work for the advancement of academic freedom... [and] initiate and review
> policies to govern the University’s relations with outside agencies for
> research, instruction, and related purposes,” and
>
> Whereas the principle of open access to the fruits of scholarly research is
> increasingly being adopted and pursued by universities and in the scholarly
> community at large, and
>
> Whereas Columbia University continues to be in the forefront of open-access
> endeavors, through its advocacy activities and its digital library
> programs, and
>
> Whereas technological, legal and economic barriers continue to be erected
> to obstruct or limit open access, and
>
> Whereas the availability of the fruits of scholarly endeavor ought to
> reflect the conditions of cooperative endeavor and common resources under
> which scholarly work is produced,
>
> Therefore be it resolved
>
> 1. That the Senate put on record its support for the principle of open
> access to the fruits of scholarly research;
>
> 2. That the Senate urge the University to advance new models for scholarly
> publishing that will promote open access, helping to reshape the
> marketplace in which scholarly ideas circulate, in a way that is consistent
> with standards of peer review and scholarly excellence;
>
> 3. That the Senate urge the University to monitor and resist efforts to
> impose digital rights management regimes and technologies that obstruct or
> limit open access, except as necessary to secure rights of privacy;
>
> 4. That the Senate urge the scholars of Columbia University to play a part
> in these open-access endeavors in their various capacities as authors,
> readers, editors, referees, and members of scientific boards and learned
> associations etc., (a) by encouraging and collaborating with publishers’
> efforts to advance open access, (b) by retaining intellectual property
> rights in their own work where this will help it become more widely
> available, and (c) by remaining alert to efforts by publishers to impose
> barriers on access to the fruits of scholarly research.
>
>
> Columbia University Libraries is one of the top ten academic library
> systems in the nation, with 8.2 million volumes, over 57,700 serials, as
> well as extensive collections of electronic resources, manuscripts, rare
> books, microforms, and other nonprint formats. The collections and services
> are organized into 22 libraries, supporting specific academic or
> professional disciplines. Columbia Libraries employs more than 400
> professional and support staff to assist faculty, students, and researchers
> in their academic endeavors.
>
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