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In a move to disseminate faculty research and scholarship more broadly, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) voted Tuesday (Feb. 12) to give the University a worldwide license to make each faculty member’s scholarly articles available and to exercise the copyright in the articles, provided that the articles are not sold for a profit. This will allow scholars and the general public from around the world access to scholarly works of FAS faculty. "By working, as individual faculties and together as a single University, we can all promote the free communication of knowledge," said Robert Darnton, Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor and director of the University Library.

http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/2008/02.14/99-fasvote.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/14/books/14arts-HARVARDRESEA_BRF.html?ex=1360645200&en=5f61a8a8256166f1&ei=5089&partner=rssyahoo&emc=rss
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