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<font size=3>[Forwarding from J.Q. Johnson. --Peter
Suber.]<br><br>
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The University of Oregon Library Faculty this morning (May 7) unanimously
adopted a resolution mandating deposit of scholarly works produced by
library faculty members in our institutional repository. The text of the
resolution is:<br><br>
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The Library 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:<br><br>
Each Library 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
Library faculty member grants 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 Library 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 Dean of the Libraries
will waive application of the policy for a particular article upon
written notification by the author, who informs the UO of the
reason.<br><br>
To facilitate distribution of the scholarly articles, as of the date of
publication, each faculty member will make available an electronic copy
of the author's final version of the article and full citation at no
charge to a designated representative of the 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.<br><br>
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We largely followed the leads of Harvard, MIT, Stanford, and most
recently Oregon State (our friends and rivals). One area where we
differ is in explicitly mandating a CC-BY-NC-ND license. Choosing
that license was very conscious. We believe that it is vital that
the community standardize on a small number of licenses to move beyond
the present mess where every publisher and practically every author has
their own unique terms. The license we chose is a good candidate
for standardization. It grants sufficient rights for most scholarly
purposes, but is also minimalist, and hence has some hope of being
acceptable to authors who wish to retain rights (for instance, many
knowledgeable faculty members I've talked to don't want to give up the
derivative works right) and to reasonable publishers. For example
(I'm speculating here as a member of ACM), we believe that Harvard would
have a much better chance of getting ACM to agree to publish given this
preexisting license than they would given Harvard's "any and all
rights" blanket requirement. Authors who wish to can of course
also license their works under a more liberal license such as
CC-BY-SA. Similarly, if a publisher does not object we'd of course
rather get the publisher's version for deposit instead of or in addition
to the author's final version.<br><br>
Our expectation is that we will develop an implementation of this policy
that includes a blanket license signed by each faculty member as part of
their regular contract renewal (to meet the "in writing"
requirements of 17 USC 205(d)), plus suggestions for how to negotiate
with publishers. We believe that in most cases no addendum to
publishing contracts is needed, but in cases where such an addendum is
needed the resolution puts the author in a stronger bargaining
position.<br><br>
JQ Johnson<br>
Director, Scholarly Communications and Instructional Support<br>
University of Oregon Libraries<br>
1299 University of Oregon
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Eugene, OR
97403-1299
<x-tab> </x-tab>email:
<a href="mailto:jqj@uoregon.edu">jqj@uoregon.edu</a><br>
<a href="http://libweb.uoregon.edu /" eudora="autourl">
http://libweb.uoregon.edu </a>
<x-tab> </x-tab>office: 115F Knight Library<br><br>
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