The resolution adopted by the Indiana University Bloomington Faculty Council on February 27 is online at IU. Excerpts:
Faculty and staff may wish to separate themselves from publishers whose business practices do not support open access. This could be done by withholding publications from their journals or choosing not to sit on their editorial boards.
Such a change in our university and departmental perspective will have many ramifications in our scholarly culture, since publication is a core value in our research and creative activities. In tenure and promotion decisions faculty and staff must be confident that there is departmental and university support for their decisions to publish in referred journals with more open access. [...]
[The Faculty Council] calls on all faculty, staff, and students of Indiana University Bloomington to work toward a more open publishing system by increasing their support of existing refereed journals and publishers whose practices are consistent with open access to scholarly communication and to support those who make such choices when considering tenure and promotion[.]
(Thanks to Corey Murata for the link to the resolution.)
Posted by
Peter Suber at 3/03/2004 02:47:00 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.
