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As an individual faculty member:

Modify, if appropriate, any contract you sign with a commercial publisher to ensure your right to use your work, including posting on a public archive.
Examine the pricing, copyright, and licensing agreements of any commercially published journal you contribute to as an author, reviewer, or editor.
Consider using your influence by the choices you make about where to publish, and about service as a reviewer or member of an editorial board, and by influencing your colleagues to do the same.
Support your library's efforts to take cost into consideration in making decisions about journal subscriptions.
Investigate your campus intellectual property policies and participate actively in their development.
Support your library's participation in projects that seek to transform scholarly publishing in accord with academic values, such as SPARC, the Scholarly Publishing & Academic Resources Coalition.

As a member of the campus community:

Encourage discussion of scholarly communication issues and proposals for change in your department and school.
Invite library participation in faculty departmental meetings and graduate seminars to discuss these issues.
Include electronic publications that meet standards of quality in promotion and tenure discussions.

As a member of professional societies:

Encourage your professional society to consider creating alternatives to expensive commercial titles.
Support actively your society's electronic publishing program by submitting papers, reviewing, and serving on editorial boards.
Encourage your society to explore alternatives to contracting or selling publications to a commercial publisher.
Encourage your society to maintain reasonable prices, and faculty and user friendly access terms.