Stanford's Education School Requires Open Access

June 30, 2008
Chronicle of Higher Education News Blog
By Lila Guterman

Open-access advocates predicted that the move last February by Harvard University's Faculty of Arts and Sciences and, later, by its Law School to require free online access to all faculty members' scholarly articles would prompt other universities to adopt similar policies. The movement has not exactly snowballed, but another institution did just join in.

Last week Stanford University's School of Education revealed that it would require faculty members to allow the university to place their published articles in a free online database.

The school's faculty passed a motion unanimously — just as Harvard's two faculties had — on June 10. A faculty member and open-access advocate, John Willinsky, made the policy public last week at the International Conference on Electronic Publishing, in Toronto. A video of his presentation is available.