Richard Poynder has a new blog post examining Harvard’s open access policy. Poynder points out that Harvard’s policy isn’t really a mandate, because authors can opt out for any publication and few take the initiative to self-archive. From the blog post:
In short, the Harvard policy is not what it appears, or at least it is not what it is represented as. Despite frequent claims to the contrary, for instance, Harvard does not have an OA mandate. After all, if any FAS researcher can obtain an automatic waiver, and there is no requirement to deposit, there is no sense in which the policy could be described as compulsory, and thus mandatory.
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We thank them billions.
Harvard has the biggest obligation to the world to share what they have in business knowledge. That is the best business school in the world they have to share it with the world like at academicearth.org.
One suggestion though, do not mnake it completely free but charge $ 10-20 per course like Carnegie Mellon so that it can be sustainable and more people of the world can benefit it.
WE ask more from Harvard.