Patricia Cohen reports in the New York Times that Harvard’s arts and sciences faculty will consider an alternate to traditional scholarly publishing that could have wide implications for the open access movement.
Under the proposal Harvard would deposit finished papers in an open-access repository run by the library that would instantly make them available on the Internet. Authors would still retain their copyright and could publish anywhere they pleased — including at a high-priced journal, if the journal would have them.
Tags: Open Access, scholarly publishing