As part of the Drew University Faculty and of the larger academic community, the Drew University Library Faculty are committed to the goals of the Open Access Movement. Specifically, these goals include facilitating and increasing access to scholarly publications and data, and expanding authors' control over their own published research.
Enhancing access to information has long been central to the library profession. Consequently, in keeping with this well-established professional practice and in support of the Open Access Movement's goals, the Library Faculty will work to implement these goals by doing the following:
Learning about Open Access and other new forms of scholarly communication
Educating the Drew community about Open Access. This will include the creation of a LibGuide devoted to explaining and promoting Open Access
Fostering and leading campus-wide conversations about Open Access and scholarly communications
Providing an Institutional Repository for voluntary dissemination and archiving of scholarly and creative work
Assisting faculty, students and the broader Drew community in learning about their Open Access options. This will include some familiarity with Sherpa/RoMeo
Supporting those who want to establish Open Access scholarly journals at Drew
Initiating a conversation with UT about how best to provide concrete technical support for such Open Access projects
Advocating for the allocation of University funds to support author-funded "green" Open Access publication
Pursuing Open Access publication for their own scholarly work, to the extent possible
Approved by the Library Faculty, February 10, 2017