Compact for Open-Access Publishing Equity

Signatories commit to the compact statement . Most importantly, signatories commit to "the timely establishment of durable mechanisms for underwriting reasonable publication charges for articles written by its faculty and published ...

To become a signatory, we need a letter from the provost of the university or equivalent academic officer confirming that they commit on behalf of the university to the compact statement. ...

Of course. Scholarly publishing is an international process, and all universities throughout the world are stakeholders in it.

Yes. Many other institutions are stakeholders in the scholarly publishing process as well. The compact is intended to serve as a statement of university support for a sustainable open-access ...

Talk to your colleagues and your provost to initiate a discussion about the compact with the goal to eventually having your university support the compact. While you're at it, it ...

Your best course of action is probably to find some faculty members who you can engage in a discussion about the compact with the goal to eventually having them enlist your ...