La Universidad de Harvard ha optado por una política clara de open access. Debemos tener en cuenta que la Universidad de Harvard está en el ranking de Universidades recién publicado en el puesto número 3 a nivel mundial. No es que yo crea mucho en los rankings, pero parece una indicación para las demás….Si estoy en el puesto 1000, que hago guardándome mis materiales para mi solo sería una buena pregunta desde un punto de vista puramente funcional?.
Podéis ver la noticia en distintas fuentes:
1)Harvard Opts In to ‘Opt Out’ Plan. en Inside Higher Ed. Harvard University’s arts and sciences faculty approved a plan on Tuesday that will post finished academic papers online free, unless scholars specifically decide to opt out of the open-access program. While other institutions have similar repositories for their faculty’s work, Harvard’s is unique for making online publication the default option.
2) harvard faculty votes overwhelmingly for open access en If book
The motion, which passed easily at yesterday’s Faculty meeting, grants Harvard a non-exclusive copyright over all articles produced by any current Faculty member, allowing for the creation of an online repository that would be “available to other services such as web harvesters, Google Scholar, and the like.”
3) harvard adopta el open access por defecto en Tecnocidanos. Apoyar el movimiento open access es de sentido común, pero cuando una institución como Harvard lo convierte en obligatorio entonces es que el mundo de la difusión del conocimiento ha cambiado para siempre.
La Universidad de Harvard, gracias nanopolitan, decidió el último martes 12 adoptar por defecto una clara política de open access, ver Inside Higher Ed. Tal acuerdo, válido por el momento para los miembros de la Facultad de Artes y Ciencias, significa que todas las publicaciones realizadas por sus profesores serán accesibles a través del repositorio institucional.
4) More on the imminent OA mandate at Harvard en Open Acces news
Robert Darnton, The Case for Open Access, Harvard Crimson, February 12, 2008. Darnton is the Director of the Harvard University Library. Excerpt:
The motion before the FAS [Faculty of Arts and Sciences] in support of open access to scholarly articles concerns openness in general. It is meant to promote the free communication of knowledge. By retaining rights for the widest possible dissemination of the faculty’s work, it would make scholarship by members of the FAS freely accessible everywhere in the world, and it would reinforce a new effort by Harvard to share its intellectual wealth.
The University Library has taken a leading role in that endeavor. Far from reserving its resources for the privileged few, it is digitizing its special collections, opening them to everyone online, and cooperating with Google in the attempt to make books in the public domain actually available to the public, a worldwide public, which extends everywhere that people have access to the Internet. If the FAS votes in favor of the motion on February 12, Harvard will make the latest work of its scholars accessible, just as it is creating accessibility to the store of knowledge that it has accumulated in its libraries since 1638
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