Bryn Mawr College Faculty Members Vote for Open Access for Their Scholarly Works

Bryn Mawr College, the highly rated women’s college in Pennsylvania, has announced that its faculty has approved an open access policy that will enable all of their scholarly works to be made available free to the public. Under the policy, faculty members agree to allow the college to make their works available through Bryn Mawr’s open access repository. To date, about 500 scholarly works are available in the repository, which may be accessed here.

Since 2008, about 40 colleges and universities have made similar commitments to open access for the scholarly works of their faculty members.