Research Library Issues RLI 269 April 2010 A Bimonthly Report from ARL, CNI, and SPARC A Special Issue on Strategies for Opening Up Content Strategies for Opening Up Content: Laying the Groundwork for an Open System of Scholarship . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1–4 Julia C. Blixrud, Assistant Executive Director, Scholarly Communication, ARL Achieving Consensus on the University of Kansas Open-Access Policy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–7 Ada Emmett, Associate Librarian for Scholarly Communications, University of Kansas Town Peterson, Distinguished Professor, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, and Senior Curator, Biodiversity Institute, University of Kansas Improving Access with Open-Access Publishing Funds . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8–10 Greg Tananbaum, ScholarNext Model Language for Author Rights in Library Content Licenses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11–13 Ivy Anderson, Director of Collections, California Digital Library, on behalf of the Ad Hoc Working Group on Author-Rights Language in Library Content Licenses Opening Up Content in HathiTrust: Using HathiTrust Permissions Agreements to Make Authors’ Work Available . . . . . . . . 14–19 Melissa Levine, Lead Copyright Officer, University of Michigan Library