Suber, Peter2021-04-232021Suber, Peter. 2021. “Author Rights and the Harvard Open Access Policies: A Response to Patrick Alexander”. Insights 34 (1): 8. doi: http://doi.org/10.1629/uksg.5432048-7754https://nrs.harvard.edu/URN-3:HUL.INSTREPOS:37367364Under "Author's primary Harvard affiliation" above, the best answer would be Harvard Library. But the drop-down menu didn't give me that option. So I chose Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society. But I want this piece to appear in the collection for librarians or administrators, not the Berkman Klein collection.In his opinion piece criticizing the open access (OA) policies at Harvard University, Patrick Alexander makes several factual errors about the policies themselves and Harvard’s experience under them. In response, I discuss several relevant facts about Harvard OA policies, among them that the policies were adopted by faculty votes, not imposed by administrators; that under the policies, faculty only grant Harvard nonexclusive rights to new faculty articles, not exclusive rights or full copyright; that the policy-created Harvard OA license is merely a default that authors can easily waive for any given article; that the policies do not hinder Harvard faculty in publishing and do not limit their freedom to publish in the venues of their choice; and that the policies give Harvard faculty more rights, not fewer rights, over their own work than they typically get from their publishing contracts.en-USJournal Article2021-04-2310.1629/uksg.543Suber, Peter. 2021. “Author Rights and the Harvard Open Access Policies: A Response to Patrick Alexander”. Insights 34 (1): 8, April 21, 2021. DOI: http://doi.org/10.1629/uksg.543