OPEN ACCESS POLICY

In compliance with the Mānoa Faculty Senate Resolution on Open Access, each Faculty member grants to the University of Hawai`i at Mānoa nonexclusive permission to make available his or her scholarly articles and to exercise the copyright in those articles for the purpose of open dissemination. Each Faculty member grants to the University of Hawai`i at Mānoa a nonexclusive, irrevocable, paid-up, worldwide license to exercise any and all rights under copyright relating to each of his or her scholarly articles, in any medium, provided that the articles are not sold for a profit, and to authorize others to do the same. II. PURPOSE Over the last fifteen years the principle of open sharing of information for the common good, known as the Open Access movement, has grown in academia. A commitment to Open Access ensures access to scholarship that is digital, free of charge to the user, free of most copyright restrictions, and is disseminated over the Internet. Momentum has grown so that institutions of higher learning and many federal funding agencies worldwide have mandated the dissemination o