Programs

Advocacy

The OSC supports open access outside Harvard through dissemination of the model open access policy and participation in programs like COPE and Open Access Week.

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OSC is the home to Harvard's Copyright Advisory Program, which includes the Copyright First Responders program.

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DASH

Digital Access to Scholarship at Harvard is the University's open-access repository. It was established to support the Open Access Policies, but its content is not limited to articles subject to those policies. Faculty are encouraged to deposit all of their scholarly works, even those written prior to the implementation of the OA policies.

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ETDs@Harvard

HOPE Fund

Harvard Open-Access Publishing Equity Fund was established in 2009 to reimburse authors for publication fees in open-access journals. This is in support of Harvard's effort to distribute the scholarship it creates.

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Journal-Flipping Project

This is a 2015-2016 project to gather options and best practices on converting subscription-based scholarly journals to open access.

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Open Access Policies

OSC has assisted Harvard schools and research centers in drafting and implementing OA policies. Under these policies, Harvard-affiliated authors vote to grant the university a nonexclusive, irrevocable right to distribute their scholarly articles for any non-commercial purpose.

OSC is also available to assist other institutions in instituting open-access policies.

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Open Initiatives

OSC strongly supports open scholarship at Harvard, even when it isn't directly related to a Harvard Open Access Policy.

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Orphan-Works Project

This is a 2015-2016 project to identify no-risk or low-risk strategies for digitizing orphan works for open access, under US copyright law, giving special attention to strategies that do not depend on fair use.

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Technology

The core technology of DASH is DSpace, the most widely-used application for institutional repositories. OSC uses a wide range of technologies in support of open access and its other missions.

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