The University of Illinois Policy on Open Access to Research Articles states:
"Each Faculty member, for the purpose of making his or her scholarly articles widely and freely available in an open access repository, grants to the University of Illinois a nonexclusive, irrevocable, worldwide license to exercise any and all rights under copyright relating to each of his or her scholarly articles, in any medium, and to authorize others to do the same. Any other systematic uses of the licensed articles by the University of Illinois must be approved by the Campus Senate. This policy does not transfer copyright ownership, which generally remains with Faculty authors under existing University of Illinois General Rules (Article III. Section 4(a))."
"To assist the University of Illinois in disseminating and archiving the articles, Faculty commit to helping the campus obtain copies of the articles. Specifically, each Faculty member who does not request a waiver of the licensing requirement as described above will provide an electronic copy of his or her final version of the article (i.e., the final author’s version ["]post peer-review” or the “final published version” where possible) to the designated repository. If applicable, a Faculty member may instead notify the University of Illinois that the article will be made openly available in another repository or in an open-access publication, or made available via a link to public access versions of those articles on publisher websites. Faculty members who have requested a permanent waiver of the licensing requirement may nonetheless deposit a copy in the repository for archival purposes."
All UIC faculty are obligated to deposit electronic copies of their published articles in an open-access online repository unless a waiver is obtained as described in the policy. Guidelines for retaining author's rights, including the right to post to an open-access scholarship platform, are described in the "Author's Rights" tab of this guide.
To fulfill the University of Illinois's open-access publishing mandate, UIC Law faculty are encouraged to deposit copies of their scholarship in the Law School's online institutional repository, which is administered by the Law Library. UIC also has a university-wide institutional repository called INDIGO, which is administered by staff at UIC's Daley Library. Instructions for depositing materials in the Law School's institutional repository and in INDIGO are available below under separate headings. UIC Law faculty members are eligible to deposit their scholarship in both the Law School's repository and in INDIGO.
Further information about the policy and how to comply is available at UI Open Access Policy, which is a comprehensive guide authored by Sandy De Groote, Professor & Scholarly Communications Librarian at UIC's Daley Library.
To fulfill the University of Illinois's open-access publishing mandate, UIC Law faculty are encouraged to include their publications in the Law School's Open-Access Institutional Repository, which is administered by the Law Library. The Law School's institutional repository is part of bepress's Digital Commons Network, which is a global interdisciplinary scholarship platform that contains almost five million items. Within the Digital Commons, UIC Law's repository is also part of bepress's Law Commons, which contains over half a million items. Accordingly, adding scholarship to UIC Law's institutional repository places it in two massive databases that are international in scope, thus amplifying its visibility and discoverability.
To add their scholarship to the Law School's repository, faculty should contact Charlie Menicocci, the Law Library's Instructor and Resources Management Librarian. Charlie can be reached at cmenic2@uic.edu.
INDIGO is is an online collection of the research and scholarship of faculty, students, and staff at UIC. UIC Law faculty are eligible to post their scholarship in INDIGO as well as in the Law School's Open-Access Institutional Repository. For more information on adding their scholarship to INDIGO, UIC Law faculty should contact Sandy De Groote, Professor & Scholarly Communications Librarian at the Daley Library.
Sandy's email address is sgroote@uic.edu.
This guide was based on the content of similar guides created by Sandy De Groote at UIC's Daley Library, Jaime Valenzuela at the University of Arizona, and the legal reference librarians at Arizona State University. Parts of this guide were also adapted from descriptions of ORCID iDs (University of Arizona Libraries), Scholarship and Scholarly Impact (University of Wisconsin Law School Library), and Create a Google Scholar Profile (University of Oklahoma Libraries).