IU Bloomington authors subject to the Open Access Policy may request a waiver of IUB's nonexclusive license on an article-by-article basis. To request a waiver under the Open Access Policy, simply email us at iusw@indiana.edu with your name, email, title of the article, and journal's name. A formal letter notifying you of the waiver of the license will be emailed to you at the address you provide. Sample Waiver Letter Pursuant to the Open Access Policy adopted by the IUB Faculty Council on February 21, 2017, this communication serves to notify you that your request for a waiver of the open access license for [ article title ] to be published in [ journal title ] has been granted. However, please be aware that waiver of the application of the IUB open access license to your article as specified above does not affect public access requirements from funders such as government agencies. If the article is subject to the 2008 NIH Public Access Policy, any policy developed as a result of the 2013 White House Office of Science and Technology Policy memorandum, or other funder requirements, those obligations cannot be waived. You must be sure to reserve rights sufficient to comply with any funder policies when you enter into a publication agreement for the article. Although you have received a waiver of the IUB open access license, the publisher’s agreement may provide sufficient rights to allow copies of your article to be made publicly available in IUScholarWorks, the IUB open access repository. In some cases, IUB may have negotiated this right with publishers separate from the agreement between the author and the publisher. The publisher may ask that certain conditions be met, some of which the repository can easily accommodate (for example, an embargo period during which the article will not be made publicly available). The bibliographic information will be made available for harvesting and indexing by search engines, such as Google Scholar, creating increased awareness of your article. top