The Case Western Reserve University faculty adopted the Faculty Open Access (OA) Policy last March, enabling wider dissemination of their scholarly articles. This policy allows faculty members to retain rights to openly share and reuse their work, including posting it in CWRU’s open access repository, Scholarly Commons.
Since its adoption, the Faculty OA Collection has garnered thousands of downloads globally, primarily through search engines such as Google and Google Scholar. This commitment to open sharing enhances the visibility and impact of faculty research.
Read more about the impact of this policy on the Kelvin Smith Library website.