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Only 15 percent of the 1,600 education journals published around the world provide free access to their content, according to Mr. Willinsky. The rest require readers and libraries to pay to read the journals, which often carry pricey subscription fees.
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If our parent universities would fund all our costs up front for publishing what we do, I am as much in favor of open access as anyone else. But the reality is that they have shown no such inclination."
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Under Stanford's new policy, only the author's final, peer-reviewed copy of the article would be posted online—in some cases, potentially months before the printed version becomes available.
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"It comes into effect when the author signs the publication agreement, which is as soon as the paper is accepted by the publisher," Mr. Willinsky said.
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Stanford's new policy was preceded earlier this year by a similar change at Harvard University, where the faculties of the school of arts and sciences and the law school also voted to share their academic work with the public.
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Pressure to share research findings with the public is also coming from a 2006 federal law, known as the Federal Research Public Access Act, which requires 11 federal agencies, including the U.S. Department of Education, to make the studies they finance more widely available.
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25 Jul 08
Jeff JohnsonFaculty members at Stanford University's School of Education have voted to make scholarly articles available to the public for free, a policy change that the university says makes Stanford's education school the first such school in the nation to join the growing "open access" movement in academia.
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