TY  - BOOK
N2  - 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.
DO  - 10.1629/uksg.543
DO  - doi
AB  - 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.
T1  - Author rights and the Harvard open access policies: a response to Patrick Alexander.
AU  - Suber, Peter,
VL  - Volume 34, no. 1, 2021.
LA  - eng
N1  - 2048-7754 (Online)
N1  - This resource was extracted from the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
ID  - 46161
KW  - Intellectual property.
KW  - Library Science
TI  - Author rights and the Harvard open access policies: a response to Patrick Alexander.
LK  - https://doi.org/10.1629/uksg.543
LK  - https://dx.doi.org/
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1629/uksg.543
UR  - https://dx.doi.org/
ER  -