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  • From: "Donna Wentworth" <dwentworth AT creativecommons.org>
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  • Subject: [sc-announce] What can universities do to promote open access? -- Science Commons blog
  • Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2008 13:18:26 -0700

What can universities do to promote open access?

March 28th, 2008 by dwentworth

Open access leader Peter Suber answers that question in the characteristically thorough and engaging lecture he gave on March 17th at Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet & Society. The talk, co-sponsored by the Berkman Center, Science Commons and Harvard's Center for Research on Computation and Society, gives a tour of five ways that universities can promote open access to research:

  • launching and filling their own OA repositories
  • supporting peer-reviewed OA journals
  • supporting OA monographs from their university presses
  • fine-tuning their promotion and tenure criteria to support excellent research even in unconventional places
  • educating faculty about copyright and OA itself

The Berkman Center has now posted video and audio of the entire lecture and ensuing discussion, and the slides are available here. And if you're interested in responses, check out Steve Harnad's detailed commentary, as well as Suber's reply at Open Access News.

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Donna Wentworth
Communications Specialist
Science Commons
http://sciencecommons.org
dwentworth AT creativecommons.org
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  • [sc-announce] What can universities do to promote open access? -- Science Commons blog, Donna Wentworth, 03/28/2008

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