The University of Nebraska-Lincoln Faculty Senate has passed a resolution supporting DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska-Lincoln. The repository contains more than 40,000 documents, and more than 500 faculty members have deposited documents in it.
Here's the resolution:
Resolution on Digital Commons Institutional Repository
The Research Council to the Faculty Senate:
Whereas — Many members of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln faculty from every college have taken advantage of services offered by the Libraries to create and populate a very successful institutional repository, the UNL Digital Commons, now containing more than 27,000 open-access items of faculty and student research, including articles, original monographs, and journals, as well as more than 11,000 dissertations, and
whereas — this repository is one of the largest academic institutional repositories in the United States, is accessed from more than 150 countries, and is indexed by Google and other major search engines, and
whereas — online open-access electronic dissemination of scholarship is an extremely effective way to enhance the visibility, recognition, and reach of faculty research,
be it resolved — that the participating faculty are to be congratulated for their support and use of the institutional repository and that all faculty are to be encouraged to take advantage of these services.
Read more about it at "University of Nebraska-Lincoln Faculty Senate Endorses Open Access."