Ray English, Director of Libraries at Oberlin College has posted a webcast about Harvard’s Open Access policy. Participants included librarians and staff from twenty-six liberal-arts colleges. From the article:
The webcast featured Stuart Shieber, Professor of Computer Science at Harvard and director of the university’s new office of scholarly communication. Shieber was the chief architect of the open access policy passed by the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences in February 2008, and has been instrumental the passage of similar policies by the Harvard Law School and the Kennedy School of Government…
In his webcast presentation Shieber outlined the reasons for Harvard’s adoption of its open access policy, including in particular the history of scholarly journal price increases and resulting problems in access to research literature.
Thanks to Gavin Baker at Open Access News for the link.
