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The University Libraries have accepted an invitation to join COAPI ((the Coalition of Open Access Policy Institutions) in recognition of our leadership role in the field and in recognition of the passage of the open access policy recently adopted by the University Libraries faculty. The Coalition of Open Access Policy Institutions (COAPI) brings together representatives from North American universities with established faculty open access policies and those in the process of developing such policies. It was formed to share information and experiences and to illuminate opportunities for moving faculty-led open access forward at member institutions and advocating for open access nationally and internationally.  COAPI will offer a collection of best and evolving practices to act as a road map for inspiring, promoting and implementing open access polices at institutions without existing or effective open access policies. For more information, see: http://www.arl.org/sparc/about/COA...

On March 5, 2013, the library faculty at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro voted unanimously to adopt an open access policy that commits them to archive their journal articles in NC DOCKS, UNCG’s institutional repository: http://libres.uncg.edu/ir/ The full text of the policy follows Whereas the Library Faculty at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG) recognize the vital importance of open-access archiving for the enrichment and expansion of scholarly communication in the Age of the Internet, we adopt the following policy in order to ensure that our research and scholarly works are freely available in perpetuity to the widest possible audience.We, the Library Faculty at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, resolve the following: • We encourage all library faculty to publish in journals that are open access or allow open access archiving. • Before we sign a publisher’s copyright agreement for a journal article, we will verify our right to ar...