OA Self-Archiving Policy: University of Kansas

OA Self-Archiving Policy: University of Kansas

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University of Kansas (US*
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http://www.ku.edu

Institution's/Department's OA Eprint Archives

[growth data] http://kuscholarworks.ku.edu/dspace/

KU ScholarWorks is a digital repository for scholarly work created by the faculty and staff of the University of Kansas. KU ScholarWorks makes important research available to a wider audience and helps assure its long-term preservation.

On April 30th 2009 the KU Faculty Senate passed a policy granting the University permission to deposit a copy their scholarly work in an open access repository-- KU ScholarWorks.

Institution's/Department's OA Self-Archiving Policy

The faculty of the University of Kansas (KU) is committed to sharing the intellectual fruits of its research and scholarship as widely as possible and lowering barriers to its access. In recognition of that commitment and responsibility, the KU faculty is determined to take advantage of new technologies to increase access to its work by the citizens of Kansas and scholars, educators, and policymakers worldwide. In support of greater openness in scholarly endeavors, the KU faculty agrees to the following concept:



Each faculty member grants to KU permission to make scholarly articles to which he or she made substantial intellectual contributions publicly available in the KU open access institutional repository, and to exercise the copyright in those articles. In legal terms, the permission granted by each faculty member is a nonexclusive, irrevocable, paid-up, worldwide license to exercise any and all rights under copyright relating to each of his or her scholarly articles, in any medium, and to authorize others to do the same, provided that the articles are not sold for a profit. This license in no way interferes with the rights of the KU faculty author as the copyright holder of the work. The policy will apply to all scholarly articles authored or co-authored while a faculty member of KU. Faculty will be afforded an opt out opportunity. Faculty governance in consultation with the Provost's office will develop the details of the policy which will be submitted for approval by the Faculty Senate.
Added by: Ada Emmett (Associate Librarian for Scholarly Communications) aemmett AT ku.edu on 20 Nov 2009