As reported in the Cavalier Daily on March 1, 2010 the University of Virginia's Faculty Senate unanimously voted on February 24th to endorse University faculty members retaining more rights to their published works and allowing those articles to be more accessible to the public. The Resolution on Scholarly Publication and Author's Rights states that faculty members may provide electronic versions of their work for an open access electronic repository. This facility will be run by the University of Virginia's library, the Office of the Provost and the Faculty Senate's Task Force on Scholarly Publications and Authors' Rights.
The resolution passed was a revision of a resolution on scholarly publications that was brought to the Faculty Senate in November,2009. Faculty Senate Task Force Chair Brian Pusser is quoted in the Cavalier Daily report as saying, "Originally, the resolution said participation would be mandatory by default but that faculty members could sign a waiver to opt out of it. The policy then was revised so that faculty members simply could decide if they wanted to contribute to the repository."