Online Learning Update

August 21, 2011

University of Kansas Creates Coalition on Open Access

Filed under: Online Learning News — Ray Schroeder @ 12:01 am

By Tanya Roscorla, Converge

A group of colleges and universities that have faculty open access policies on scholarly articles will share strategies with each other in a new coalition created by the University of Kansas. Through a new coalition, a group of colleges and universities that have faculty open access policies on scholarly articles will share strategies with each other. The University of Kansas has taken the lead on creating the Coalition of Open Access Policy Institutions, and on a teleconference call last month, 21 other universities including Harvard, Duke and Stanford expressed interest in moving forward. In future coalition teleconferences, universities that have open access policies can talk about how to handle issues like sharing research on open websites, said Lorraine Haricombe, dean of libraries.

http://www.convergemag.com/policy/University-of-Kansas-Creates-Coalition-on-Open-Access.html

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