In another blow to already cash-strapped US universities, a measure that is exected to have global repurcussions, Boston University has become the first major US higher education institution to post its academics' research online. This thus bypasses the traditional route of publishing papers in peer-reviewed journals, which the university said, restricts public access.
By this move, academics will be able to choose whether or not to make their work available on Boston's web archive, but the faculty governing body has endorsed the idea, as have all 17 of its schools and colleges. Anyone may use the research, as long as authors are cited and the intended use is not for financial gain.
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