On March 25, the Faculty Senate approved an Open Access (OA) Policy to provide greater access to scholarly articles by ÐÇ¿Õ´«Ã½ faculty members. The OA Policy allows faculty members to retain rights to openly share and reuse their scholarly articles, including publicly posting their article in a repository. In adopting the OA Policy, the ÐÇ¿Õ´«Ã½ faculty is indicating a commitment to open and equitable sharing of research and scholarship.
ÐÇ¿Õ´«Ã½ joins around 100 other research institutions in North America that have adopted OA Policies, including Harvard, Georgia Tech, Dartmouth, MIT, and the University of California.