Following in the footsteps of City Tech and the Grad Center (but reworking the text slightly), the Brooklyn College Library Department unanimously passed this statement at today’s department meeting:

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The Brooklyn College Library Department affirms that open access to scholarship is critical for scholarly communication, affordable education, and the advancement of knowledge. Accordingly, the Department asks its faculty to make their research available at no cost whenever possible by seeking publishers that have adopted open access policies (i.e., publishers that publish their contents online without restriction and/or allow authors to self-archive their publications in online repositories). Whenever self-archiving is allowed, the Department expects its faculty to promptly self-archive their publications online for all to read and use. When faculty are working with publishers that do not allow self-archiving, the Department encourages them to negotiate to improve publication agreements. Furthermore, the Department encourages its faculty to devote most of their reviewing and editing efforts to manuscripts destined for open access.

For information about open access, including tools that help researchers make their works open access, see http://dewey.brooklyn.cuny.edu/resources/?service=openaccess.

This statement is adapted from the Gustavus Adolphus Library Faculty Open Access Pledge (http://gustavus.edu/library/Pubs/OApledge.html).

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I encourage other departments (library departments and otherwise!) to think about passing something similar!

Jill

Following in the footsteps of City Tech and the Grad Center (but reworking the text slightly), the Brooklyn College Library Department unanimously passed this statement at today’s department meeting:

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The Brooklyn College Library Department affirms that open access to scholarship is critical for scholarly communication, affordable education, and the advancement of knowledge. Accordingly, the Department asks its faculty to make their research available at no cost whenever possible by seeking publishers that have adopted open access policies (i.e., publishers that publish their contents online without restriction and/or allow authors to self-archive their publications in online repositories). Whenever self-archiving is allowed, the Department expects its faculty to promptly self-archive their publications online for all to read and use. When faculty are working with publishers that do not allow self-archiving, the Department encourages them to negotiate to improve publication agreements. Furthermore, the Department encourages its faculty to devote most of their reviewing and editing efforts to manuscripts destined for open access.

For information about open access, including tools that help researchers make their works open access, see http://dewey.brooklyn.cuny.edu/resources/?service=openaccess.

This statement is adapted from the Gustavus Adolphus Library Faculty Open Access Pledge (http://gustavus.edu/library/Pubs/OApledge.html).

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I encourage other departments (library departments and otherwise!) to think about passing something similar!

Jill

[Matthew K. Gold (he/him)]

Fantastic. Congrats and thank you!!

[Maura A. Smale (she/her)]

This is so great — congrats and thanks to all at BC!

[Polly Thistlethwaite]

Terrific. This makes 4 CUNY library departments with OA statements, am I correct? Brooklyn, NYCTech, GC, and Lehman? Are there other departments that we know about?

[Madeline Cohen]

Lehman’s statement has not been voted on yet. A vote probably will be taken at the next department faculty meeting in August or September.

[Madeline Cohen]

Congratulations to Jill and other faculty at Brooklyn! Thanks for posting the statement.