[BOAI] Library Faculty Open Access Resolution

[Peter Suber]

The faculty of the University of Northern Colorado Libraries unanimously
adopted this resolution on December 2, 2009.  Forwarding from Jayati
Chaudhuri.  --Peter Suber.

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Library Faculty Open Access Resolution —December 2, 2009

We, the faculty of University Libraries of the University of Northern
Colorado (UNC) resolve the following:

   1. To disseminate our scholarship as broadly as possible.  We endeavor to
   make our scholarly work openly accessible in conformance with open access
   principles.  Whenever possible, we make our scholarship available in digital
   format, online, free of charge, and free of most copyright and licensing
   restrictions.


   1. To deposit our scholarly work in our institutional repository, Digital
   UNC at the earliest possible opportunity.


   1. To seek publishers whose policies allow us to make our research freely
   available online.  When a publisher’s policies do not allow us to make our
   research freely available online, we resolve to engage in good faith
   negotiations with the publisher to allow deposit of peer-reviewed, pre- or
   post-print versions of our scholarly work in Digital UNC. This resolution,
   however, gives us the latitude and individual discretion to publish where we
   deem necessary, given our career goals, intended audience, and other
   reasonable factors.

The resolution applies to the scholarly works authored and co-authored while
faculty are employed at UNC Libraries, beginning with works published or
submitted for publication after December 2, 2009. The works encompassed by
this resolution include journal articles and conference proceedings.  We
encourage the deposit of other scholarly work, including but not limited to
book chapters and conference presentations.

This open access resolution will be reviewed by faculty of the University
Libraries after one year.

Approved unanimously December 2, 2009
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