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Each member of the faculty of Arts & Sciences grants to Rollins College
nonexclusive permission to make available the final, peer-reviewed, manuscript
version accepted for publication of his or her scholarly articles (hereafter
referred to as “works”) and to exercise all rights under United States
copyright law in those works for the purpose of open dissemination. In legal
terms, each faculty member grants to Rollins College a nonexclusive,
irrevocable, paid-up, non-commercial, worldwide license to exercise any and
all rights under copyright relating to each of his or her scholarly works, in
any medium, provided that the works are not sold for a profit or used for any
commercial purposes, and to authorize others to do the same. The policy will
apply to all peer-reviewed scholarly works, including works jointly authored
with persons who are not members of the Rollins faculty of Arts & Sciences,
written while the person is a member of the faculty except for any works
completed before the adoption of this policy, any works for which the faculty
member entered into an incompatible licensing or assignment agreement before
the adoption of this policy, and any work for which the author might
reasonably expect to receive royalties (including monographs, textbooks,
musical, or other creative works.). The Professional Standards Committee will
waive application of the policy for a particular work upon written
notification by the author, who informs Professional Standards Committee of
the reason.
To assist Rollins College in distributing the scholarly works, on or before
the date of publication, each faculty member will make available an electronic
copy of his or her final version of the work at no charge to a designated
representative of Olin Library in appropriate formats (such as Microsoft Word
or PDF) specified by the library. Each work will be embargoed until it has
appeared either in print or online at the publisher’s web site, whichever
comes first.
Olin Library will make the works available to the public in an open-access
repository. The Professional Standards Committee will be responsible for
interpreting this policy, resolving disputes concerning its interpretation and
application, and recommending changes to the faculty. The policy is to take
effect immediately; it will be reviewed after two years by the Professional
Standards Committee, with a report presented to the faculty.
The faculty of Arts & Sciences calls upon Olin Library to develop and monitor
a plan for a service or mechanism that would render compliance with the policy
and the waiver procedure as convenient for the faculty as possible. To this
end, the faculty authorize the Dean of the Faculty to provide appropriate Olin
Library personnel with the information recorded in Section II(1) “Research,
Scholarship, and Artistic Activity” of the College of Arts & Sciences Faculty
Self-Assessment Reports.
