Today, the Trinity [University] faculty will vote on whether or not Trinity should adopt a policy of Open Access to its scholarly articles. ...
Under Trinity's proposed Open Access policy, articles would be published in their non-peer-reviewed state in a repository on the Trinity Web site. Meanwhile, the author would submit the article to a journal for the publishing process, and the peer-reviewed version of the article would appear only in the journal. ...
"Our policy is to have authors split the rights of their articles and have their commercial rights be made available to publishers and their non-commercial rights to stay here at Trinity," said [chemistry department chair Steve] Bachrach. ...
According to Bachrach, there will be an embargo period, preventing the articles from being openly available in the Trinity repository until after they are published in the journals. This allows the peer review process to remain in place.
Faculty will also be allowed to opt-out if they don't want their articles to be available on the Open Access online repository. ...
Comment. I'm surprised if this is an accurate summary of the proposed policy. As far as I know, all existing OA mandates require deposit after a publication has been accepted for publication, i.e. after peer review. The description here sounds more akin to a mandate for working papers.
Posted by
Gavin Baker at 10/23/2009 03:54:00 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.
I recommend the OA tracking project (OATP) as the best way to stay on top of new OA developments. You can read the OATP feed on a blog-like web page or subscribe to it by RSS, email, or Twitter. You can also help build the feed by tagging new developments you encounter.
