[GOAL] Re: Open-Access Policy Adopted by UNCG’s Library Faculty

[Stevan Harnad]

Hi Stephen,

Congratulations.

Could I ask you to register it in ROARMAP to publicize it and encourage
others to adopt mandates too?

http://roarmap.eprints.org

Many thanks,

Stevan Harnad



On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 1:59 PM, Stephen Dew <shdew at uncg.edu> wrote:

> On March 5, 2013, the library faculty at the University of North Carolina
> at Greensboro voted unanimously to adopt an open access policy that commits
> them to archive their journal articles in NC DOCKS, UNCG’s institutional
> repository: http://libres.uncg.edu/ir/
>
> The policy states:
>
>
>
> Whereas the Library Faculty at the University of North Carolina at
> Greensboro (UNCG) recognize the vital importance of open-access archiving
> for the enrichment and expansion of scholarly communication in the Age of
> the Internet, we adopt the following policy in order to ensure that our
> research and scholarly works are freely available in perpetuity to the
> widest possible audience.
>
>
>
>    - We encourage all library faculty to publish in journals that are
>    open access or allow open access archiving.
>
>
>    - Before we sign a publisher’s copyright agreement for a journal
>    article, we will verify our right to archive the work in NC DOCKS (UNCG’s
>    non-commercial, open-access repository of institutional scholarly works) or
>    attempt to retain that right by adding an author addendum.
>
>
>    - We will submit our journal articles to NC DOCKS as soon as possible
>    after acceptance for publication.
>
>
>    - We will promote open access to all faculty on campus and encourage
>    them to archive their scholarly works in NC DOCKS.
>
>
>    - We grant to UNCG Libraries a non-exclusive, perpetual license to
>    archive our submitted works in NC DOCKS.
>
>
>    - We grant to the UNCG Libraries the right to migrate one or more
>    copies of our submissions to any medium or format for security and
>    preservation purposes.
>
>
>    - Although library faculty are encouraged to archive all of their
>    scholarly works in NC DOCKS, this policy will apply only to journal
>    articles created after approval of the policy by a vote of the library
>    faculty.
>
>
>    - Recognizing that some publishers do not allow archiving in
>    institutional repositories, each library faculty member who reaches an
>    agreement with such a publisher must provide to the Dean of Libraries a
>    written explanation for his/her actions that preclude the ability to
>    archive, and Dean will waive the application of the policy.
>
> For more information about this and other scholarly communications
> activities at UNCG, see
> http://library.uncg.edu/services/scholarly_communication/index.aspx
> or contact Stephen Dew, Collections & Scholarly Resources Coordinator,
> shdew at uncg.edu
>
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