In a historic measure, the Harvard University Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) Tuesday unanimously approved a motion that compels Harvard researchers to deposit their "scholarly articles" in an open access (OA) repository to be managed within the library and to be made freely available to anyone via the Internet. Faculty members, however, can opt-out of compliance by obtaining a waiver, a point some OA advocates say could potentially undermine the policy's effectiveness. Nevertheless, the Harvard vote provided a resonant "shot heard 'round the world" for the open access movement.
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