[Oa-italia] Faculty of Harvard policy Open Access

[Paola Gargiulo]

Mi scuso per la duplicazione del messaggio su piu' liste, ma mi pare 
importante segnalare che le varie facolta' di Harvard stanno prendendo 
una posizione estremamente importante sull'OA.
Paola
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Il giorno 7  maggio 2008  anche la Faculty of Law di Harvard,  ha 
deliberato sull'Open Access  approvando in modo unanime   una policy che 
ricalca quella approvata a febbraio scorso dalla Facolta' di Arts and  
Sciences  di Harvard. Anche in questo caso ciascun membro della Facolta' 
concede alla Facolta' di rendere disponibili i propri articoli 
scientifici  e di esercitare il copyright su questi articoli. Per 
saperne di piu' vedi estratto:

    'The Faculty of the Harvard Law School is committed to disseminating 
the fruits of its research and scholarship as widely as possible. In 
keeping with that commitment, the Faculty adopts the following policy: 
Each Faculty member grants to the President and Fellows of Harvard 
College permission to make available his or her scholarly articles and 
to exercise the copyright in those articles. More specifically, each 
Faculty member grants to the President and Fellows a nonexclusive, 
irrevocable, worldwide license to exercise any and all rights under 
copyright relating to each of his or her scholarly articles, in any 
medium, and to authorize others to do the same, provided that the 
articles are not sold for a profit. The policy will apply to all 
scholarly articles authored or co-authored while the person is a member 
of the Faculty except for any articles completed before the adoption of 
this policy and any articles for which the Faculty member entered into 
an incompatible licensing or assignment agreement before the adoption of 
this policy. The Dean or the Dean's designate will waive application of 
the policy to a particular article upon written request by a Faculty 
member explaining the need.

    'Each Faculty member will provide an electronic copy of the final 
version of the article at no charge to the appropriate representative of 
the Provost's Office in an appropriate format (such as PDF) specified by 
the Provost's Office no later than the date of its publication. The 
Provost's Office may make the article available to the public in an 
open-access repository.

    'The Office of the Dean will be responsible for interpreting this 
policy, resolving disputes concerning its interpretation and 
application, and recommending changes to the Faculty from time to time. 
The policy will be reviewed after three years and a report presented to 
the Faculty.'

fonte: http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/402