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Open Access Policy

In consultation with the Academic Council and Head of Departments and centres CBS Executive Management Team has decided to implement an open access policy in order to work for free and open access to the university's research. This decision is a follow-up on CBS' signature to The Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities in april 2008 .

Policy principles

• CBS and the faculty at CBS are committed to disseminating the results of its research and scholarship as widely as possible.
  
  
• To fulfill that commitment CBS is adopting an open access policy that provide open access to full-text versions of all scholarly papers and articles written by its faculty.
  
  
• The aim is to allow these publications to be read, searched, printed, distributed or utilized in any other conceivable legitimate manner without any financial, technical or legal restrictions.
  
  
• This does not affect the author’s legal right to be identified as the copyright holder of such works.
  
  
• This open access policy furthermore seeks to increase authors’ influence in scholarly publishing by establishing a collective practice of retaining a right to open access dissemination of certain scholarly works.
  
  
• As a consequence of this policy CBS faculty shall routinely grant to CBS a license to place in a non-commercial open access online repository (OpenArchive@CBS) the faculty member’s scholarly work published in a scholarly journal or conference proceedings.)
  
  
• In the event a faculty member is required to assign all or a part of his or her copyright rights in such scholarly work to a publisher as part of a publication agreement, the faculty member shall retain in the publication agreement the right to grant the foregoing license to CBS.
  
  
• Faculty may opt out of this policy for any specific work or invoke a specified delay before such work appears in an open access repository in accordance with the opt-out mechanism set forth below.
  
  
• The policy will apply to all scholarly articles written while the person is a member of the Faculty except for any articles completed before the adoption of this policy and any articles for which the Faculty member entered into an incompatible licensing or assignment agreement before the adoption of this policy. But it is strongly recommended that faculty consider depositing articles written earlier to the adoption of this policy if existing publishing agreements does not prevent this.
  
  
• A faculty member may opt out of this policy for a specific work that has been accepted for publication in a journal or conference proceeding that refuses to allow open access depositing of the work. The Research Dean or the deans designate will waive application of the policy for a particular article upon written notification by the author, who informs CBS of the reason.

Read more:
CBS Open Access Policy 2009

Queries: Senior Adviser Leif Hansen