{"id":1186,"date":"2008-02-15T00:28:49","date_gmt":"2008-02-15T00:28:49","guid":{"rendered":"\/ifbookblog\/?p=1186"},"modified":"2008-02-15T00:28:49","modified_gmt":"2008-02-15T00:28:49","slug":"harvard_faculty_votes_overwhel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/2008\/02\/15\/harvard_faculty_votes_overwhel\/","title":{"rendered":"harvard faculty votes overwhelmingly for open access"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thecrimson.com\/article.aspx?ref=521861\">The Harvard Crimson<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The motion, which passed easily at yesterday&#8217;s Faculty meeting, grants Harvard a non-exclusive copyright over all articles produced by any current Faculty member, allowing for the creation of an online repository that would be &#8220;available to other services such as web harvesters, Google Scholar, and the like.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8230;English professor Stephen Greenblatt, the editor of what he described as a journal with &#8220;a decent reputation and a quite anemic subscription base,&#8221; advocated for the motion because he doubted it would accelerate the death of his journal, and because he said he was worried about the currently high cost of many monographs.<br \/>\n&#8220;This is one of the only ways we can break the backs of the monopolists who are currently seriously damaging our fields,&#8221; he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/02\/14\/books\/14arts-HARVARDRESEA_BRF.html?_r=1&#038;oref=slogin\">New York Times<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The chorus of &#8216;yeas&#8217; was thunderous,&#8221; Robert Darnton, the director of the University Library, wrote in an e-mail message. &#8220;I hope this marks a turning point in the way communications operate in the world of scholarship.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Harvard Crimson: The motion, which passed easily at yesterday&#8217;s Faculty meeting, grants Harvard a non-exclusive copyright over all articles produced by any current Faculty member, allowing for the creation of an online repository that would be &#8220;available to other services such as web harvesters, Google Scholar, and the like.&#8221; &#8230;English professor Stephen Greenblatt, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,805,969,1362,1546],"tags":[2545],"class_list":["post-1186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academic","category-harvard","category-journals","category-openaccess","category-publishing","tag-harvard-academic-publishing-journals-openaccess"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1186\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}