In February, the faculty of Harvard Business School voted to adopt an open access policy for its research. In terms of scholarly communication, I regard this as a significant shift. From what I understand of the progress of the open access movement, it has been adopted in the sciences (especially medical and life sciences) community to the greatest degree. In browsing the website of the Office of Scholarly Communication and the Digital Access to Scholarship at Harvard (DASH) Repository, I found only one article from the Business School, but the policy has only been in effect a month. Many other universities that adopted open access four or five years ago are still in the process of implementing it – open access is important but it can be time consuming to fully implement. As one of the world’s leading centres of business and management research, I expect that this will be a fascinating resource.
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