Communication column, "What's the opposite of a pyrrhic victory?," discussed the failure of the University of Maryland to adopt an open access policy.Responding to the advice in Hackman's piece, this column offers some suggestions on the process of proposing a policy at your institution.This column assumes the goal of a binding open access policy, like those adopted recently at Harvard 1 and MIT 2 (but see caveats below).In general, I won't discuss the actual workings of the policy here.For more information on crafting the policy itself, see SPARC's campus policy resources.3
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Gavin Baker (2010) studied this question.