NIU Libraries has launched a pilot Open Access Fund that will provide small grants to faculty and graduate students to help defray the upfront costs associated with open access publishing.
Grappling with the costs for expensive journal subscriptions, a number of universities nationwide, including Harvard and MIT, are promoting open access publishing. It provides unrestricted online access to peer-reviewed journal articles, thus broadening access to scholarly research.
“In the current mode of scholarly communication, authors of scholarly works have to abrogate their copyright and distribution rights to their own work to have it appear in a publication that restricts access to the same work to only those who pay the subscription price for access,” University Libraries Dean Dawson says. “Open access wants to expose scholarly work to the widest possible audience, an audience not limited by commercial publishers’ restrictions.” （From：http://www.niutoday.info）
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