Summary: The resolution endorsed "the principle of open access to the fruits of scholarly research" and urged "the University to advance new models for scholarly publishing that will promote open access" and urged Columbia faculty "to play a part in these open-access endeavors in their various capacities as authors, readers, editors, referees, and members of scientific boards and learned associations etc., (a) by encouraging and collaborating with publishers' efforts to advance open access, (b) by retaining intellectual property rights in their own work where this will help it become more widely available, and (c) by remaining alert to efforts by publishers to impose barriers on access to the fruits of scholarly research."
