The University Of Kansas – Open Access, Are You A Good Witch Or A Bad Witch?

Katarina Lovrečić | InTechWeb Blog | November 18, 2010

One year has passed since the University of Kansas became the first public university in the US to adopt Open Access policy for public scholarship. The faculty has released a newsletter in which they have decided to evaluate their practice which has now grown from the campus level and was recently celebrated on a global scale during the Open Access Week.

Close Your Eyes and Tap Your Heels Together Three Times

KU’s main campus, considered one of the most artsy in the region occupies 1,000 acres on and around Mount Oread in Lawrence. With more than 30,000 students and 2,450 faculty members, the university attains high levels of research productivity and it is the only Kansas Regents university to hold membership in the prestigious Association of American Universities (AAU). Library collections on the Lawrence campus alone (not including other academic divisions), contain more than 4.2 million volumes, 3.6 million microforms, 338,000 maps, and 3.4 million photographs, slides, drawings, and cartoons. Other specialized libraries hold collections in art and architecture, dance, engineering, law, maps, and music. At the medical center, the Archie R. Dykes Library for Health Sciences and the Clendening History of Medicine Library and Museum are major resources for health professionals.