Commitment to Open Knowledge
The Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government (M-RCBG) is actively committed to the openness of information relevant to the public, particularly for issues at the intersection of business and government. This value is embodied in the traditions of a free press and is consistent with the idea that quality information is vital to the functioning of democracy.
We therefore support and reaffirm Harvard's Open Access Policy, enacted and implemented by all of the nine individual Harvard faculties all by unanimous or nearly unanimous faculty votes. This includes an affirmative vote by the Harvard Kennedy School, under which M-RCBG operates.
Harvard has pioneered measures to promote open access and move toward a publishing system that is in keeping with the University's goals of promoting the civic good. One of these measures is an open-access policy that has the effect of allowing open distribution of research articles.
M-RCBG Open Access Policy
M-RCBG is actively committed to the openness of information relevant to the public, and has a long-established tradition of offering all research materials produced by the Center and its Fellows free to the public on its website. Further, we will provide an electronic copy of the author's final version of each scholarly article to the appropriate representative of the Provost's Office, to be deposited into our collection in the open Digital Access to Scholarship at Harvard (DASH) repository.
Each member of the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government grants to the President and Fellows of Harvard College permission to make available their scholarly articles and to exercise the copyright in those articles. More specifically, each member grants to the President and Fellows of Harvard College a nonexclusive, irrevocable, worldwide license to exercise any and all rights under copyright relating to each of their scholarly articles, in any medium, provided that the articles are not sold for a profit, and to authorize others to do the same. The policy applies to all scholarly articles authored or co-authored while the person is a member of M-RCBG, except for any articles completed before the adoption of this policy and any articles for which the member entered into an incompatible licensing or assignment agreement before the adoption of this policy. The Provost or Provost's designate will waive application of the license for a particular article or delay access for a specified period of time upon express direction by member.
June 2024