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Harvard to Publish Free on the Web?
The New York Times reports that faculty members at Harvard University will be voting today to decide whether or not to distribute their scholarly articles on the Web in an open-access repository which would make them freely available. Today’s decision will apply to Harvard’s arts and sciences faculty.
“In place of a closed, privileged and costly system, it will help open up the world of learning to everyone who wants to learn,” said Robert Darnton, director of the university library. “It will be a first step toward freeing scholarship from the stranglehold of commercial publishers by making it freely available on our own university repository.”
