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News:

• June 22, 2009:  The Faculty Senate President announced the Open Access policy to all faculty.  KU's Faculty Senate approved the Open Access Policy for KU at its final meeting on April 30, 2009.  On May 19th and 22nd the Provost and Chancellor, respectively, approved the policy. 

• Ed School Faculty Endorse Open Access, Harvard Crimson, June 20, 2009.  Faculty at the Harvard Graduate School of Education voted overwhelmingly earlier this month to make their scholarly articles open access.

• June 10, 2009: A coalition of national and regional college student associations today issued a “Student Statement on the Right to Research,” calling on universities, research funders, and researchers to take action in support of Open Access to research.
• May 20, 2009: Release of a joint statement by international publishers and librarians, agreeing to "Enhancing the Debate on Open Access".
• April 2009: Peter Suber releases his "Field Guide to Misunderstandings About Open Access".
• March 18th, 2009: MIT's faculty passed unanimously an open access policy making it the first faculty-initiated university wide open access policy in the United States.
• June 30th, 2008: Stanford University's School of Education faculty vote to approve an "open access" proposal providing copies of their published journal articles to the Stanford institutional repository.
• May 7th, 2008:  Harvard's Law School faculty unanimously vote to make their work "open access" following the Open Access Proposal passed by the faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard in February.
• April 7th, 2008: National Institutes of Health (NIH) revised Public Access Policy and requirements for all grant recipients went into effect.  See KU's Office of Research Integrity for more information.
• February 12, 2008: Harvard's Faculty of Arts and Sciences vote unanimously to require themselves to deposit a copy of all their published journal articles in Harvard's open access digital repository.

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