[GOAL] ROARMAP: Microsoft Research Adopts Green Open Access Self-Archiving and Copyright Reservation Policy

[Stevan Harnad]

http://roarmap.eprints.org/998/  <http://t.co/rNfKxz3N4L>

Microsoft Research (20 Jan 2014)
INSTITUTION or FUNDER URL: http://research.microsoft.com
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*Microsoft Research Open Access Policy
<http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/help/openaccess.aspx>*

Microsoft Research is committed to disseminating the fruits of its research
and scholarship as widely as possible because we recognize the benefits
that accrue to scholarly enterprises from such wide dissemination,
including more thorough review, consideration and critique, and general
increase in scientific, scholarly and critical knowledge.

To advance this commitment, Microsoft Research has adopted the following
policy:

*RETENTION OF CERTAIN RIGHTS*

In connection with our open-access goals, for Microsoft Research-authored
scholarly publications (“Works”) submitted to third-party conferences and
publishing houses (“Publishers”) for publication, Microsoft Research
retains a license to make our Works available to the research community in
our online Microsoft Research open-access repository.

*AUTHORIZATION TO ENTER INTO PUBLISHER AGREEMENTS*

Microsoft researchers are authorized to enter into standard publication
agreements with Publishers on behalf of Microsoft in order to assign or
license the copyrights in their Works (but no other rights) to Publishers
for publication purposes subject to the rights retained by Microsoft as per
the previous paragraph. This applies to all scholarly articles authored or
co-authored by a researcher while employed by Microsoft.

*DEPOSIT*

To assist in disseminating and archiving its scholarly work, Microsoft
researchers commit to helping Microsoft Research obtain copies of their
articles by providing an electronic copy of each article for inclusion in a
Microsoft Research open-access repository. Microsoft Research will endeavor
to make every Microsoft Research-authored article available to the public
in an open-access repository, though in rare cases, certain
publisher-imposed conditions may not allow such availability.
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