Harvard scholars vote to provide open access

Today Harvard professors will be voting on whether or not to publish academic articles for free through an online repository. Such a vote, if it comes out in favor of open access, could, as this New York Times article comments, "given the university’s prestige... be significant for the open-access movement, which seeks to make scientific and scholarly research available to as many people as possible."

Let's hope they make a wise decision, favoring open dissemination of scholarship over current business practices! Then other institutions might, encouraged, follow suit...