Yesterday the University of Connecticut Faculty Senate adopted a resolution that asserts the vital interests of all faculty and students in access to scholarly literature, condemns "the business practices of some journals and journal publishers [as] inimical to these interests", calls on senior faculty "to reduce their support of journals or publishers whose practices are inconsistent with the health of scholarly communication by submitting fewer papers to such journals, by refereeing fewer papers submitted to such journals, or by resigning from editorial posts associated with such journals", and calls on administrators "to reward efforts by faculty, staff, and students to start or support more sustainable models for scholarly communication."
Posted by
Peter Suber at 2/10/2004 12:41:00 PM.
The open access movement:
Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature
on the internet. Making it available free of charge and
free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
Removing the barriers to serious research.
