98TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2013 and 2014
SB1900

 

Introduced 2/15/2013, by Sen. Daniel Biss

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
New Act

    Creates the Open Access to Research Articles Act. Provides that no later than 12 months after the effective date of the Act, each public institution of higher education shall develop an open access to research articles policy. Provides that all public institutions of higher education shall develop policies that provide for the submission, by all faculty employed by the public institution of higher education, to the employing institution of an electronic version of the author's final manuscript of original research papers upon acceptance by a scholarly research journal; the incorporation of certain changes and replacements regarding the manuscript; free online public access to the final peer-reviewed manuscripts or published versions upon publication; an irrevocable, worldwide copyright license granted by the author to the public; production of an online bibliography of all research papers that are publicly accessible; and long-term preservation of, and free public access to, published research articles. Sets forth provisions concerning applicability, other policy requirements, and reporting requirements.


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FISCAL NOTE ACT MAY APPLY
STATE MANDATES ACT MAY REQUIRE REIMBURSEMENT

 

 

A BILL FOR

 

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1    AN ACT concerning education.
 
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3represented in the General Assembly:
 
4    Section 1. Short title. This Act may be cited as the Open
5Access to Research Articles Act.
 
6    Section 5. Purpose. The General Assembly finds and declares
7the following:
8        (1) to maximize the social and economic benefits of
9    research to the public, the published research articles
10    produced by faculty at public institutions of higher
11    education should be made as widely available as possible;
12        (2) the public support these employees receive and the
13    increased impact that broad public dissemination of
14    research has is an important public purpose;
15        (3) many public institutions of higher education have
16    developed, or are developing, the capacity to provide free
17    access over the Internet to such research through
18    institutional repositories or otherwise; and
19        (4) a substantial portion of the research currently is
20    not freely available over the Internet because the faculty
21    have entered into publication agreements with terms that
22    restrict public access to the fruits of unclassified
23    research conducted by these State employees.
 

 

 

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1    Section 10. Definitions. In this Act, "public institution
2of higher education" means the University of Illinois; Southern
3Illinois University; Chicago State University; Eastern
4Illinois University; Governors State University; Illinois
5State University; Northeastern Illinois University; Northern
6Illinois University; Western Illinois University; the public
7community colleges of this State; or any other public
8university, college, or community college now or hereafter
9established or authorized by the General Assembly.
 
10    Section 15. Open access to research articles.
11    (a) No later than 12 months after the effective date of
12this Act, each public institution of higher education shall
13develop an open access to research articles policy.
14    (b) All public institutions of higher education shall
15develop policies that provide for the following:
16        (1) the submission, by all faculty employed by the
17    public institution of higher education, to the employing
18    institution (or to an institution designated by the
19    employing institution) of an electronic version of the
20    author's final manuscript of original research papers upon
21    acceptance by a scholarly research journal, including
22    peer-reviewed journals and related publications used by
23    researchers to disseminate the results of their
24    institution-affiliated research;

 

 

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1        (2) the incorporation of all changes resulting from any
2    peer review occurring during the publication process;
3        (3) the replacement of the final manuscript with the
4    final published version if:
5            (A) the publisher consents to the replacement; and
6            (B) the goals of the policy for functionality and
7        interoperability are retained;
8        (4) free online public access to the final
9    peer-reviewed manuscripts or published versions
10    immediately upon publication in a peer-reviewed journal;
11        (5) an irrevocable, worldwide copyright license
12    granted by the author to the public that permits any use of
13    an article on condition that the author and original
14    publisher are attributed as such and that any such
15    attribution is not made in a way that implies endorsement
16    of the use by the author or original publisher;
17        (6) production of an online bibliography of all
18    research papers that are publicly accessible under the
19    policy, with each entry linking to the corresponding free,
20    online full text; and
21        (7) long-term preservation of, and free public access
22    to, published research articles:
23            (A) in a stable digital repository maintained by
24        the employing institution; or
25            (B) if consistent with the purposes of the
26        employing agency, in any repository meeting conditions

 

 

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1        determined favorable by the employing institution,
2        including free public access, interoperability, and
3        long-term preservation.
4    (c) Each public institution of higher education's open
5access to research articles policy shall do the following:
6        (1) apply to:
7            (A) all full-time faculty employed by the public
8        institution of higher education; and
9            (B) all researchers employed by the public
10        institution of higher education, but whose work is
11        funded by a federal agency; and
12        (2) make effective use of any law or guidance relating
13    to the creation and reservation of a government license
14    that provides for the reproduction, publication, release,
15    or other uses of a final manuscript for federal purposes.
16Works described under clause (B) of subdivision (1) of this
17subsection (c) shall be made available at the same time the
18works are made available under subdivision (4) of subsection
19(b) of this Section.
20    (d) Each public institution of higher education's open
21access to research articles policy shall not apply to the
22following:
23        (1) research progress reports presented at
24    professional meetings or conferences;
25        (2) laboratory notes, preliminary data analyses, notes
26    of the author, phone logs, or other information used to

 

 

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1    produce final manuscripts;
2        (3) classified research, research resulting in works
3    that generate revenue or royalties for authors (such as
4    books), or patentable discoveries, to the extent necessary
5    to protect a patentable invention; or
6        (4) authors who do not submit their work to a journal
7    or works that are rejected for publication by journals.
8    (e) Nothing in this Act shall be construed to affect any
9right under the provisions of Title 17 or 35 of the United
10States Code.
11    (f) The reporting requirements under this Act are as
12follows:
13        (1) Not later than October 1 of each year, a designated
14    representative of each public institution of higher
15    education shall submit a report on the public institution
16    of higher education's open access to research articles
17    policy to the following:
18            (A) the House of Representatives' Higher Education
19        Committee and the Senate's Higher Education Committee;
20        and
21            (B) any other committee of the General Assembly of
22        appropriate jurisdiction.
23        (2) Each report under this subsection (f) shall include
24    the following:
25            (A) a statement of the effectiveness of the open
26        access to research articles policy in providing the

 

 

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1        public with free online access to papers produced by
2        faculty at the public institution of higher education;
3            (B) a list of papers published in peer-reviewed
4        journals produced by faculty at the public institution
5        of higher education;
6            (C) a corresponding list of papers made available
7        by the public institution of higher education as a
8        result of the open access to research articles policy;
9        and
10            (D) a summary of the periods of time between public
11        availability of each paper in a journal and in the
12        online repository of the public institution of higher
13        education.
14        (3) The public institution of higher education shall
15    make the statement under subparagraph (A) of paragraph (2)
16    of this subsection (f) and the lists of papers under
17    subparagraphs (B) and (C) of paragraph (2) of this
18    subsection (f) available to the public by posting the
19    statement and lists on the Internet website of the public
20    institution of higher education.