The Daily Eastern News : Faculty Senate reviews new Open Access Policy

"Faculty Senate members approved a draft of the new Open Access Policy for Eastern, which makes scholarly publications within the university publically available, Tuesday. The Illinois General Assembly passed the Open Access to Research Articles Act in August 2013, requiring all Illinois universities to create a task force in charge of making an open access policy for all university scholarly publications, according to the Commons Knowledge website. An Open Access Policy committee with ten members has been created as the established task force in charge of creating the new open access policy. Members have reviewed current university practices on open access to research articles, and have established a draft of the new policy in order to satisfy the act and university policy. Committee member Todd Bruns said Eastern is part of the depository platform known as the Digital Commons network, a collection of 358 other institutions around the world using the same platform ..."