Declaring Independence at Penn
Engage the publishers: What you can do
*Be aware of pricing policies.
*Move intellectual content to another publication with more open copyright policies.
*Urge your scholarly society to allow authors to retain copyright.
Know your editors & publishers
Read more about actions faculty can take
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Learn about other modes of publishing your scholarly work
*PLoS (Your publication charges are discounted 50% because Penn is a sustaining member.)
Promote the development of institutional repositories
Many institutions are creating Institutional Repositories (IRs) to manage, preserve, and maintain the digital assets, intellectual output and histories of institutions, and can be used to showcase the quality of faculty research to colleagues, potential students or funding sources.
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