RE: Harvard Faculty Adopts OA Requirement

["George Porter" <george@library.caltech.edu>]

FYI -- I found the text of the resolution. -- George

Stuart Shieber presented a resolution on behalf of the same committee to
the faculty board, 16 October 2007
http://www.uc.fas.harvard.edu/uploads/Business/Remarks/07F%20Remarks/071
016%20FAS%20Meeting%20Agenda.pdf.

Agenda for the Regular Meeting of February 12, 2008

http://www.fas.harvard.edu/%7Esecfas/February_2008_Agenda.pdf

5. On behalf of the Provost's Committee on Scholarly Publishing, 
Professor S. Shieber will move:

The Faculty of Arts and Sciences of Harvard University is 
committed to disseminating the fruits of its research and 
scholarship as widely as possible. In keeping with that 
commitment, the Faculty adopts the following policy:

Each Faculty member grants to the President and Fellows of 
Harvard College permission to make available his or her scholarly 
articles and to exercise the copyright in those articles. In 
legal terms, the permission granted by each Faculty member is a 
nonexclusive, irrevocable, paid-up, worldwide license to exercise 
any and all rights under copyright relating to each of his or her 
scholarly articles, in any medium, and to authorize others to do 
the same, provided that the articles are not sold for a profit.

The policy will apply to all scholarly articles written while the 
person is a member of the Faculty except for any articles 
completed before the adoption of this policy and any articles for 
which the Faculty member entered into an incompatible licensing 
or assignment agreement before the adoption of this policy. The 
Dean or the Dean's designate will waive application of the policy 
for a particular article upon written request by a Faculty member 
explaining the need.

To assist the University in distributing the articles, each 
Faculty member will provide an electronic copy of the final 
version of the article at no charge to the appropriate 
representative of the Provost's Office in an appropriate format 
(such as PDF) specified by the Provost's Office.

The Provost's Office may make the article available to the public 
in an open-access repository.

The Office of the Dean will be responsible for interpreting this 
policy, resolving disputes concerning its interpretation and 
application, and recommending changes to the Faculty from time to 
time. The policy will be reviewed after three years and a report 
presented to the Faculty.

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