In the spring of 2023, UVM’s Faculty Senate passed a resolution calling on “the different colleges and schools of the University to develop policies and procedures promoting open access sharing of scholarly output” and to “review their incentive structures in hiring, reappointment, promotion, and tenure [RPT] to ensure alignment with open scholarship …"

The Faculty Senate recently drafted a brief summarizing and providing context for their spring 2023 resolution promoting open access sharing of scholarly output. Bottom line? UVM supports open access and open science. Read the September 2023 summarizing brief.

The spring 2023 resolution is available here.