Will IU Faculty Adopt an Open Access Policy?

Abstract

Faculty at a growing number of colleges and universities have adopted open access policies. Most of these policies follow the Harvard "opt out" model, including, Duke, Kansas, MIT, Georgia Tech, University of California and many others. Working with an opt out open access policy, faculty give universities permission to upload scholarly articles to institutional repositories such as IUPUI ScholarWorks. If an author wants to publish in a journal that refuses to support compliance with the policy, or if the author has other objections to sharing the manuscript, the author may send a notification to the university indicating that they wish to opt out. These policies show the faculty's commitment to sharing knowledge while also maximizing exposure to an author's scholarship. At IUPUI, the library faculty adopted a similar policy in 2009, the "IUPUI Library Faculty Deposit Mandate." IUPUI is also a member of the Coalition of Open Access Policy Institutions (COAPI). Recently IUPUI faculty have begun to consider a full, campus-wide open access policy. A Faculty Council committee has drafted a policy and the initial stages of outreach and deliberation have begun. This session will report on the progress of the draft IUPUI Open Access Policy, faculty attitudes regarding open access policies, and approaches to library-supported policy implementation.