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<font size=3>[Forwarding from David Wacks. --Peter Suber.]<br><br>
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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.<br><br>
14 May 2009<br>
Eugene, Oregon<br>
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Resolved, that the UO Romance Languages Faculty adopts the following
policy in support of deposit of scholarly works in Scholars' Bank:<br>
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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:<br>
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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. <br>
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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.<br>
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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.<br>
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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.<br>
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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.<br><br>
David Wacks<br>
Asst. Professor of Spanish<br>
University of Oregon<br>
Dept. Romance Languages<br>
<a href="http://rl.uoregon.edu/people/faculty/profiles/wacks/index.php">
http://rl.uoregon.edu/people/faculty/profiles/wacks/index.php</a><br>
twitter: davidwacks<br><br>
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