[BOAI] First Humanities Departmental OA Mandate in the world

[Peter Suber]

[Forwarding from David Wacks.  --Peter Suber.]


On Wednesday, May 14th, by unanimous vote, the faculty of the Department of 
Romance Languages at the University of Oregon adopted an Open Access 
mandate (text below). This mandate is the first (according to ROAR) such 
mandate in the world by any Department in the Humanities and the 3rd in 
Oregon (after OSU Library faculty and UO Library faculty). It is 
distinguished by the stipulation that URLs of self-archived postprints are 
to be included in all materials submitted to the Department for purposes of 
review and promotion.

14 May 2009
Eugene, Oregon

Resolved, that the UO Romance Languages Faculty adopts the following policy 
in support of deposit of scholarly works in Scholars' Bank:

The Romance Languages Faculty of the University of Oregon are committed to 
disseminating the fruits of their research and scholarship as widely as 
possible. In keeping with that commitment, the Faculty adopts the following 
policy:

Every Romance Language tenure-track faculty member is required to 
self-archive in UO Scholars' Bank a postprint version of every 
peer-reviewed article or book chapter published while the person is a 
member of the Romance Languages faculty. The URLs of these postprints will 
be included in all materials submitted internally to the Romance Languages 
Department for purposes of review and promotion.

Self-archiving in UO Scholars' Bank means that each Romance Languages 
faculty member gives to the University of Oregon nonexclusive permission to 
use and make available that author's scholarly articles for the purpose of 
open dissemination. Specifically, each Romance Languages faculty member 
grants to the UO a Creative Commons "Attribution-Noncommercial-No 
Derivative Works 3.0 United States" license to each of his or her scholarly 
articles. The license will apply to all scholarly articles written while 
the person is a member of the Romance Languages Faculty except for any 
articles accepted for publication 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 Department of Romance Languages will waive application of the policy 
for a particular article upon written notification by the author, who 
informs the Department of the reason.

It is strongly recommended that faculty link publications listed on their 
Departmental website faculty profile to the corresponding self-archived 
postprints, and also that they self-archive postprints of articles and book 
chapters published prior to the adoption of this policy.

To facilitate distribution of the scholarly articles, as of the date of 
publication, each faculty member will make available an electronic copy of 
his or her final version of the article and full citation at no charge to a 
designated representative of the UO Libraries in appropriate formats (such 
as PDF) specified by the Libraries.  After publication, the University of 
Oregon Libraries will make the scholarly article available to the public in 
the UO's institutional repository.

David Wacks
Asst. Professor of Spanish
University of Oregon
Dept. Romance Languages
<http://rl.uoregon.edu/people/faculty/profiles/wacks/index.php>http://rl.uoregon.edu/people/faculty/profiles/wacks/index.php
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