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 <sh...@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, > sh...@uncg.edu >
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