@article{46161, note = {2048-7754 (Online)}, author = {Suber, Peter,}, url = {http://tind.wipo.int/record/46161}, title = {Author rights and the Harvard open access policies: a response to Patrick Alexander.}, abstract = {In his opinion piece criticizing the open access (OA) policies at Harvard University, Patrick Alexander makes several factual errors about the policies themselves and Harvard’s experience under them. In response, I discuss several relevant facts about Harvard OA policies, among them that the policies were adopted by faculty votes, not imposed by administrators; that under the policies, faculty only grant Harvard nonexclusive rights to new faculty articles, not exclusive rights or full copyright; that the policy-created Harvard OA license is merely a default that authors can easily waive for any given article; that the policies do not hinder Harvard faculty in publishing and do not limit their freedom to publish in the venues of their choice; and that the policies give Harvard faculty more rights, not fewer rights, over their own work than they typically get from their publishing contracts.}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.1629/uksg.543}, recid = {46161}, pages = {Volume 1.}, }