University of Kansas becomes first U.S. public university to pass an open access policy
Source: news.ku.edu Posted By: Mark A..5386 days ago
The University of Kansas has become the nation’s first public university to adopt an “open access” policy that makes its faculty’s scholarly journal articles available for free online.
The move aligns KU with Harvard and Stanford universities and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, which have similar policies in place.
Scholarly articles — the method by which a professor presents original research results — normally are published in peer-reviewed journals and available only through....