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Sharing knowledge is both our right and responsibility at KU, and providing open access to publicly-funded research is a key component of that vital work. Dean Haricombe and her colleagues at KU Libraries have provided essential leadership and support for open access, not only for KU but the world. Their efforts help give KU’s researchers and scholars truly global visibility and reach. - Chancellor Bernadette Gr ay-Little
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Open Access Week: Dean Haricombe
with (from left to right) College of Liberal Arts & Sciences Dean Danny Anderson, former KU Provost David Shulenburger and Chancellor Bernadette Gray-Little at an event for KU’s distinguished professors.
Netherlands: 3,105 Germany: 12,127 United Kingdom: 11,887
Poland: 2,095 Slovenia: 2,283 Ukraine: 3,371 Turkey: 2,233
France: 11,614 Spain: 3,526 Italy: 3,024 Greece: 1,537
University of Kansas became the first public institution in the United States to adopt a faculty open access policy. In July 2011, KU Dean of Libraries Lorraine Haricombe invited deans and directors at universities and colleges with established open access policies to discuss the possibility of organizing. The result of that call was the formation of the Coalition of Open Access Policy Institutions (COAPI), a growing organization of 41 North American universities that collaborates and advocates on a global level.
Russia: 1,737 South Korea: 2,257 Japan: 6,992 China: 21,345 Taiwan: 2,574
Egypt: 1,822 Israel: 1,985 Iran: 5,270 India: 8,180
his October, KU reaffirmed its commitment to making scholarly work widely available by signing the Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities (www.berlin9.org) in conjunction with International Open Access Week. KU Libraries’ faculty and staff have provided strong leadership for the open access movement on campus, nationally and internationally, since 2009, when the
Philippines: 3,120 Malaysia: 1,954 Indonesia: 2,506 Australia: 4,487
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