September 4, 2009

Harvard launches beta test of its open access repository

From the Sept. 1 press release of the Harvard Office for Scholarly Communication:

The Harvard Office for Scholarly Communication (OSC) today unveiled the beta‐test site for its open access repository, http://dash.harvard.edu, to the public. DASH, for Digital Access to Scholarship at Harvard, is intended to serve as a university‐wide institutional repository.

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Hundreds of scholarly works have been added to DASH in recent months, mainly by Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) and Harvard Law School (HLS) professors, with the assistance of student Open Access Fellows as well as HLS and other library staff. To date, over 350 Harvard authors have contributed to the repository, including roughly a third of FAS's 718 faculty members. Of the 1,500+ items in DASH today, the vast majority are peer‐reviewed journal article manuscripts.

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Contributors include Harvard President Drew Faust and University professors Robert Darnton, Peter Galison, Stanley Hoffman, Barry Mazur, Stephen Owen, Amartya Sen, Irwin Shapiro, Helen Vendler, and George Whitesides. Harvard's science and engineering departments have contributed the largest proportion of items in the repository, but humanities and social science departments including economics, anthropology and philosophy are also represented by dozens of submissions.

Posted by stemp003 at September 4, 2009 2:01 PM
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