OA Policy Development at URI ACRLNEC Scholarly Communication

OA Policy Development at URI ACRL/NEC Scholarly Communication Interest Group Program Northeastern University June 19, 2013 Andrée Rathemacher • andree@uri. edu

March 2012 Julia Lovett, Digital Initiatives Librarian

April 2012 Peter Larsen, Chair of Faculty Senate (and librarian)

September-November 2012 Ad-Hoc Committee on Open Access Julia Lovett, library Andrée Rathemacher, library Louis Kirschenbaum, chemistry Corey Lang, resource economics Laura Beauvais, provost’s office History professor (unavailable)

Faculty concerns • Will the policy hurt journals by causing cancellations? • Will a journal not accept my article because of the policy? • English faculty: What if someone were to translate my article or place it in an anthology? • Will the fact that the repository contains the author’s manuscript and not the final published version be confusing?

February-March 2013 Stuart Shieber of Harvard, all-around hero Andrée Rathemacher, library Peter Larsen, Chair of Faculty Senate English professor on Faculty Senate Executive Committee

April-May 2013 Lou Saccoccio, URI General Counsel David Dooley, URI President

On the author addendum: “After showing this to our publisher, this is NOT acceptable as it allows for complete Public Access and we can't sign this. ” Production Coordinator, Perspectives in Biology and Medicine

• • Assistance Authorization Form (Harvard) Author addendum (Harvard) Waiver text (Harvard) Submission process (by email and harvesting) Publisher notification letters (MIT) Workflows — TBD Outreach to faculty — need strategies