Open Access

Harvard Professor Alyssa Goodman discusses the integral role open access plays in astronomical research. To read open Harvard scholarship, visit To learn more about Open Access at Harvard, listen to the presentation on Sound Cloud /open-access-at-harvard-an and visit

Harvard Professor Peter Bol discusses how Open Access affects his work as a historian, and how people around the world are collaborating to produce innovative maps that combine the geographical and the historical. To read open Harvard scholarship, visit To learn more about Open Access at Harvard, listen to the presentation on SoundCloud /open-access-at-harvard-an and visit

Harvard Professor Jonathan Zittrain talks about open access, its effects on teaching, and its potential for fostering communities and encouraging dialogue. To read open Harvard scholarship, visit To learn more about Open Access at Harvard, listen to the presentation on SoundCloud /open-access-at-harvard-an and visit

Harvard Professors Gary King and Stuart Shieber provide advice to graduate students about open access, dissertations, and journal publishing, and answer the questions: What is open access? How can it help your career as a scholar? Should dissertations be made open access? If your dissertation is publicly available, won’t someone steal your ideas? Can you negotiate with publishers to make your articles open access? To read open Harvard scholarship, visit To learn more about Open Access at Harvard, listen to the presentation on Sound Cloud /open-access-at-harvard-an and visit

Harvard graduate and postdoctoral researcher at Cornell Ben Finio discusses robotic bees, the high cost of journal articles, and the importance of open access to scientists and engineers.

Peter Suber, Director of the Harvard Library Office for Scholarly Communication, answers the questions: What is open access? How do authors benefit from open access? How do readers benefit from open access? How can people participate in the growth of open access? What do you see as the future of open access? To read open Harvard scholarship, visit To learn more about Open Access at Harvard, listen to the presentation on Sound Cloud /open-access-at-harvard-an and visit

In the last two years, over 1400 people have written Harvard to say thanks for DASH ( Thank you, Harvard authors! Contact the OSC to submit your work. DASH is a central, open-access repository of research by members of the Harvard community, containing over 20,000 works that have been downloaded over 3.8 million times (and counting). Read Harvard scholarship at DASH is a service of the Harvard Library Office for Scholarly Communication.