This well attended session featured Dan Hazen from Harvard University discussing the nuts and bolts of Harvard's open access policy. Unlike K-State's K-Rex, Harvard's institutional repository began first with faculty papers and is only now starting to address ETDRs. A
And now for some fascinating background that I was unaware of until the discussion. Harvard Libraries are comprised of 10 faculty libraries that function as separately funded entities not beholden to the larger Harvard Universities umbrella.
One early point the speaker shared is a mandate does not mean compliance. Not all of the various schools participate in the open access mandate. The example shared was the Harvard Business School. $100 million a year is generated through the sale of Harvard Business case studies. This particular school is highly unlikely to support the open access mandate given the huge loss of revenue.
Some random musings from the session:
- Harvard funds some author fees for full open access but does not fund partial open access author fees
- Harvard's endowment funds up to 50% of colleges' library budgets
- Harvard employs students who go through faculty vitas to assist with mediated deposit. The student workers are called Open Access Fellows (a.k.a. OAFs)
- A small number of arts and sciences faculty have opted out of deposit into the IR. Opt outs are handled on an article by article basis and cannot been done for an entire body of a faculty member's scholarly work.
- How does OA impact the tenure model?
- Harvard's open access policy applies to finished manuscripts, not publisher versions.
- The mandate is a non-exclusive deposit for Harvard.
- The Harvard mandate is like a disclosure, if a faculty enters into an outside agreement with a publisher, the earlier Harvard mandate trumps it as of the mandate's approval date.
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