Georgia Institute of Technology faculty adopt an institutional Open Access Policy - November 27, 2012

Georgia Tech overwhelmingly voted to adopt an Open Access policy!

"The Faculty of Georgia Tech is committed to disseminating the fruits of its research and scholarship as widely as possible. In addition to the public benefit of such dissemination, this policy is intended to serve faculty interests by promoting greater reach and impact for articles, simplifying author retention of distribution rights, and aiding in electronic preservation. In keeping with these commitments, the Faculty adopts the following policy:

Each Faculty member grants to Georgia Tech Research Corporation (hereinafter "GTRC") nonexclusive permission to make available his or her scholarly articles and to exercise the copyright in those articles for the purpose of open dissemination. In legal terms, each Faculty member grants to GTRC a nonexclusive, irrevocable, royalty-­‐free, worldwide license to exercise any and all copyrights in his or her scholarly articles published in any medium, provided the articles are not sold or licensed for a profit by GTRC or any GTRC-­‐granted licensee."

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It takes effect Jan 1, 2013.

Here is the policy: http://library.gatech.edu/scdc/OA_policy_draft

For Attribution: Developing Data Attribution and Citation Practices and Standards - NAP monograph

New monograph from National Academies Press on data attribution and citation:

For Attribution: Developing Data Attribution and Citation Practices and Standards 

See press release: http://click.newsletters.nas.edu/?qs=42d3446a74627a80b39824b38c211d4949c9ddb2c8e6c6290579e769821c97da

Direct link to workshop monograph free online: http://click.newsletters.nas.edu/?qs=42d3446a74627a80335f876fc2943ef3b4ff3f2c75a170398370174240f7c898