Links to information on Open Access including information on developing open access policies and universities who have policies in place.

1. Open Access to Research Articles Act – Links
Link to the Act -- http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/publicacts/98/PDF/098-0295.pdf
Fact Sheet on the Bill from UIUC --http://publish.illinois.edu/commonsknowledge/2013/08/22/factsheet-on-the-illinois-open-access-to-research-articles-act-public-act-098-0295/
SPARC Information on the Bill -- http://www.sparc.arl.org/advocacy/state/sb1900
Information on open access:
SPARC (Scholarly Publishing and Research Community, out of the Association for Research Libraries
(ARL) of which the U of I is a member) has a great deal of material, including:
 http://www.arl.org/sparc/
 http://www.sparc.arl.org/resources/open-access/why-oa
 http://www.sparc.arl.org/blog/opportunity-your-campus-support-open-access-encourage-yourprovosts-sign-open-letter-support (Open access bill being developed in the U.S. Congress, and
includes a letter signed by provosts at many of the U of I’s peer institutions.)
ACRL Scholarly Communications -- http://www.ala.org/acrl/issues/scholcomm
http://chronicle.com/blogs/profhacker/what-is-open-access-an-explanatory-video-from-phdcomics/53077 (video “what is open access” from the Chronicle of Higher Education website)
http://tagteam.harvard.edu/hubs/3 (Harvard’s “Open Access Tracking Project” with links to many
articles and postings related to open access)
University of Illinois at Chicago -- Open Access - http://library.uic.edu/home/services/publishing-andscholarly-communication/uic-journal-publishing
University of Illinois (Urbana Champaign) – Open Access
http://www.library.illinois.edu/scholcomm/openaccess.html
Institutional and Campus Policies
Information from SPARC -- http://www.sparc.arl.org/advocacy/on-campus
Information on University Policies -- http://oad.simmons.edu/oadwiki/Unanimous_faculty_votes
Guide for Best Practices on developing university policies -- http://bit.ly/goodoa
Coalition of Open Access Policy Institutions (COAPI) – http://www.sparc.arl.org/COAPI

2. Specific Campus Policies
University of California system
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http://osc.universityofcalifornia.edu/openaccesspolicy
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http://phys.org/news/2013-08-university-california-open-access-policy-papers.html
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http://chronicle.com/article/Open-Access-Gains-Major/140851/
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http://techcrunch.com/2013/08/02/university-of-california-approves-major-open-access-policyto-make-research-free/
Harvard
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https://osc.hul.harvard.edu/policies
https://osc.hul.harvard.edu/modelpolicy
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http://libraries.mit.edu/scholarly/mit-open-access/open-access-at-mit/mit-open-accesspolicy/mit-faculty-open-access-policy-faq/
MIT
Other Information
IDEALS - https://www.ideals.illinois.edu/
IDEALS Deposit Agreement https://www.ideals.illinois.edu/bitstream/handle/2142/3732/DepositAgreement_April2006.pdf
?sequence=2
Peter Suber – Open Access News (Blog)
– http://legacy.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/fosblog.html
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Open access: six myths to put to rest - http://www.theguardian.com/higher-educationnetwork/blog/2013/oct/21/open-access-myths-peter-suber-harvard
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Open Access Overview by Peter Suber http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/overview.htm
Brandon Butler – ARL Policy Notes (Blog)
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http://policynotes.arl.org/
Digital Scholarship
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http://www.digital-scholarship.org/
H. Stephen McMinn
Open Access Presentation
UIS Campus Senate
November 22, 2013