Southern Illinois University Carbondale
In accordance with Public Act 098-0295 otherwise known as the Open Access to Research Articles Act (see fulltext below), the Illinois General Assembly indicated that “to maximize the social and economic benefits of research to the public, the published research articles produced by faculty at public universities should be made as widely available as possible….”
In compliance with the Act, an SIU Task Force on Open Access to Research Articles was established to prepare an “Open Access Policy for Faculty Scholarship.” The Task Force approached its charge by seeking to blend: (1) the overarching public good of free access to research articles generated by faculty at state universities; (2) with the academic freedom of faculty authors and their rights to publish where they wish; (3) and the rights of publishers of scholarly journals to receive fair remuneration for their enhancements to and publication and distribution of research articles.
The Open Access Policy for Faculty Scholarship: Research Articles was approved by the SIU Board of Trustees in December 2014.
The original members of the Task Force:
Randolph Elble, Associate Professor of Pharmacology
Chris Lant, Professor, Geography
David Lightfoot, Professor, Plant, Soil, and Agricultural Systems
Barbara Martin, Interim Director, SIU Press
Regina McBride, Dean, Lovejoy Library
Anne Cooper Moore, Dean, Library Affairs
Pete Mykytyn, Professor, Management
Jonathan Nabe, Professor, Library Affairs
Paul Sarvela (ex officio), Vice President for Academic Affairs
Replaced by John Haller, Special Assistant to the President
Jennifer Vandever, Associate Vice Chancellor, Information Technology Services
Ron Worthington, Associate Professor, School of Pharmacy