In alignment with our Strategic Plan to “increase access to and improve dissemination of UW scholarship” and the Open Access Policy of the Association of Librarians of the University of Washington:
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What This Means
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This page is adapted from the Creative Commons pages of the UC Santa Cruz University Library and the UC Berkeley Library.