[A2k] Harvard Law faculty votes for 'open access' to scholarly articles

[Soenke Zehle]

Subject: 	Harvard Law faculty votes for 'open access' to scholarly articles
Date: 	Wed, 07 May 2008 12:32:14 -0400
From: 	Seth Young <syoung@cyber.law.harvard.edu>

Good afternoon,

The Berkman Center for Internet & Society is pleased to announce that
the faculty of Harvard Law School has unanimously approved a motion for
open access: articles will be made freely available in an online
repository. With the success of this motion, Harvard Law becomes the
first law school to make an institutional commitment to open access to
its faculty's scholarly publications.

In February, Harvard University's Faculty of Arts and Sciences
unanimously passed an open access motion spearheaded by computer science
professor and Berkman faculty co-director Stuart Shieber. Professor
Shieber's work and leadership, along with that of Harvard library
director Robert Darnton, paved the way for Berkman faculty director
William Fisher and executive director John Palfrey to bring an open
access proposal to Harvard Law School.

The Berkman community is tremendously proud and excited about the
success of these important initiatives.

The full release from Harvard Law School can be found online at
http://www.law.harvard.edu/news/2008/05/07_openaccess.php.
Contact: Harvard Law School Office of Communications
<http://www.law.harvard.edu/news/office.php>

The Berkman Center's announcement, including a link to the full text of
the open access motion, can be found online at
http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/node/4273.
Contact: Seth Young <syoung@cyber.law.harvard.edu>, +1.617.384.9135


Seth Young
Berkman Center for Internet & Society
Harvard Law School
+1.617.384.9135

*About the Berkman Center*

The Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School is proud
to celebrate its tenth anniversary as a research program founded to
explore cyberspace, share in its study, and help pioneer its
development.  Founded in 1997, through a generous gift from Jack N. and
Lillian R. Berkman, the center is now home to an ever-growing community
of faculty, fellows, staff and affiliates working on projects that span
the broad range of intersections between cyberspace, technology and
society.  More information can be found at http://cyber.law.harvard.edu.

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