Kansas University [Gary's alma mater, Go Jayhawks!] is trying to make the research done at the school available to a wider audience.
A new policy asks KU researchers to retain some of the copyright on their work if they wish to, allowing journal articles, e-books and other scholarly work to be posted online on a KU Web site for all to see.
Ada Emmett, scholarly communications librarian, has been working with a KU task force to implement the policy. She said she hoped to have 25 percent of the total research KU does posted online over the next two years, though the output of research done at KU is difficult to quantify.
Not all journals agree to give up the copyrights — and when that happens, the policy does not interfere with professors publishing their work as usual.
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