nvm, found it here: The compact for open-access publishing equity supports equity of the business models by committing each university to "the timely establishment of durable mechanisms for underwriting reasonable publication charges for articles written by its faculty and published in fee-based open-access journals and for which other institutions would not be expected to provide funds."
D Parker Phinney wrote: > i agree, this could be a great thing to rally around. > > can someone help me understand what the compact actually means? is it > anything more than a symbolic gesture of "yeah, i'm into this. totally."? > > Elizabeth Stark wrote: >> Guys, this would be a GREAT campaign to get all of our respective >> universities to sign on. >> >> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- >> From: *Aditya Kamdar* <[email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>> >> Date: Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 3:26 PM >> Subject: Open Access Compact >> >> (Big) news: >> >> This was announced today: Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, MIT, and UC >> Berkeley "announced their joint commitment to a compact for >> open-access publication." >> >> http://hul.harvard.edu/news/2009_0914_compact.html >> >> Any idea if Yale was invited? >> >> Here's the website of the compact: http://www.oacompact.org/ >> >> -Adi >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Discuss mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://freeculture.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss > -- D Parker Phinney madebyparker.com _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://freeculture.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss
