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Harvard Law School Unanimously Adopts Green OA Self-Archiving Mandate07/05/2008 Harvard Law School has unanimously adopted a Green OA Self-Archiving Mandate -- Harvard's 2nd, the US's 4th, and the world's 44th (with 7 more proposed mandates under consideration, including the EUA council's unanimous recommendation to its 791 member universities in 46 countries). Updated Definition of OA: "Weak" OA and "Strong" OA29/04/2008 The definition of Open Access (OA) has been updated to reflect OA developments and evolving usage. Access barriers take two forms: price-barriers and permission-barriers. Making documents price-free (online) is a necessary, but not a sufficient condition for making them permission-free. Henceforth being accessible online price-free will be called "Weak OA" and being accessible price- and permission-free will be called "Strong OA." Green and Gold remain the two means of providing OA (OA self-archiving and OA publishing, respectively), but so far most Green OA as well as Gold OA are only Weak OA. Once Green OA mandates from institutions and funders have generated universal Weak OA, Strong OA will not be far behind. | |||||||||
