The Penn State Faculty Senate on Tuesday voted to endorse the CIC Statement on Publishing Agreements. The statement is intended to ensure that faculty retain certain rights relevant to archiving, instructional use, and sharing with colleagues to advance discourse and discovery when publishing their work in scholarly journals.

The resolution, statement, and accompanying model publishing agreement addendum are available on the Faculty Senate agenda.

Faculty who are working on NIH-funded projects need to pay special attention to publishing agreements so that they can comply with NIH’s new Public Access Policy, which requires deposit of articles in PubMed Central within one year of publication.