This article appears in PLOS Biology today, titled: University Public-Access Mandates Are Good for Science
http://www.plosbiology.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pbio.1000237 Why would university faculty choose to place their scholarship on electronic archives for a world-wide audience? Many US universities have adopted such mandates for public access to faculty research, perhaps most notably Harvard [1] <#pbio.1000237-1>, MIT, and the University of Kansas [2]<#pbio.1000237-2>. These policies (and many more like them in various stages of consideration on campuses across the nation and world) are harbingers of a new order, one in which essentially all scholarly articles can be found and accessed by any interested individual. -- rec --
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