David E. Shulenburger, who has overseen impressive gains in the academic profile of University of Kansas students and a renewed emphasis on effective teaching, announced today that he will step down as executive vice chancellor and provost of the Lawrence campus at the end of June 2006....Shulenburger, a labor economist, will return to teaching in the School of Business. He leaves a long legacy of achievements as provost. Among them:...Leader of a national dialogue on the economics of scholarly communication in the digital era. For drawing attention to making scholarly publications affordable and his proposal to create a National Electronic Article Repository, Shulenburger received commendation from the Association of Research Libraries.
(PS: David Shulenburger is a first-generation leader of the OA movement, from his October 1998 proposal for a National Electronic Article Repository (NEAR) to the March 2005 University of Kansas resolution on OA and his accompanying memorandum urging Kansas faculty to deposit their research output in the Kansas ScholarWorks repository. Under his leadership, the University of Kansas became the first U.S. university to sign the Registry of Institutional OA Self-Archiving Policies. All the best to him in his retirement.)
Posted by
Peter Suber at 9/29/2005 11:36:00 AM.
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.
