| Overall Rating | Gold |
|---|---|
| Overall Score | 72.67 |
| Liaison | Aurora Sharrard |
| Submission Date | Feb. 13, 2024 |
University of Pittsburgh
AC-11: Open Access to Research
| Status | Score | Responsible Party |
|---|---|---|
|
2.00 / 2.00 |
Samantha
Chan Assistant Director of Sustainability Office of Sustainability |
Does the institution offer repository hosting that makes versions of journal articles, book chapters, and other peer-reviewed scholarly works by its employees freely available on the public internet?:
Website URL where the open access repository is available:
A brief description of the open access repository:
D-Scholarship@Pitt is an institutional repository for the research output of the University of Pittsburgh. D-Scholarship@Pitt provides stable, long-term storage and ongoing maintenance for content contained within the repository. Materials are submitted directly by authors with an active University of Pittsburgh email account. Submissions are restricted to scholarly research materials. Examples of items that this repository can accommodate include:
• Research papers (published or unpublished)
• Conference papers and presentations
• Supporting multimedia (audio, video, images, etc.)
• Research data
• Electronic theses and dissertations
D-Scholarship@Pitt is designed to increase discovery of Pitt research by allowing indexing by Google and other major internet search engines, the Pennsylvania Digital Library, and PITTCat+.
Does the institution have a published policy that requires its employees to publish scholarly works open access or archive final post-peer reviewed versions of scholarly works in an open access repository?:
A copy of the institution's open access policy:
The institution's open access policy:
The University of Pittsburgh does NOT require open access publication, but an author self-archiving repository that facilitates “Green” Open Access is offered and promoted to every researcher at the University of Pittsburgh.
Pitt’s University Library System (ULS) Services for Open Access includes:
• D-Scholarship@Pitt (see above), Pitt’s repository for work open and discoverable no matter the publication outlet. https://www.library.pitt.edu/d-scholarship
• ULS Subject Specialists - Help researchers find Open Access journals or publishers for their work. https://www.library.pitt.edu/find-expert
• Pitt Open Library Publishing - Open Access journal publisher in the University Library System. https://www.library.pitt.edu/e-journals
• ULS Copyright and Licensing Expertise - To help researchers with questions about author rights, contracts, reusability, and more. https://www.library.pitt.edu/copyright
• Policy Development & Advocacy - Including school or departmental Open Access policy development, funder mandates, and Open Scholarship initiatives.
>> Reference 1: https://pitt.libguides.com/
>> Reference 2: https://v2.sherpa.ac.uk/juliet/
>> Reference 3: https://sparcopen.org/what-we-do/active-policy/
Reference: https://www.library.pitt.edu/open-access
Does the policy cover the entire institution? :
Does the institution provide an open access article processing charge (APC) fund for employees?:
A brief description of the open access APC fund:
The University of Pittsburgh has shifted its strategy regarding open access APC away from a distinct APC Fund. Instead, Pitt has a growing set of negotiated publisher agreements that allow for Open Access publishing with no or reduced fees for institutional authors. This new strategy is an improvement on the one-by-one APC fund because it has much broader impact for both authors and readers, does not perpetuate the individual APS model, which the Library considers inequitable; it is also more sustainable from a resource investment perspective.
More details on our decision shift strategies: https://library.pitt.edu/open-access-fee-fund
The University currently has agreements with 17 publishers, a complete list of publisher agreements can be found at https://library.pitt.edu/publish-agreements and an overview of our Open Access publishing support https://library.pitt.edu/publishing-open-access
Does the institution provide open access journal hosting services through which peer-reviewed open access journals are hosted on local servers with dedicated staff who provide publishing support at no (or minimal) cost?:
A brief description of the open access journal hosting services:
The University of Pittsburgh's University Library System (ULS) is a member of the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA) and the Library Publishing Coalition.
Pitt's ULS publishes more than 40 scholarly, peer-reviewed online journals with partners from the Pitt community and scholars from around the world. The full list of ULS Open Access journals is online here: https://library.pitt.edu/publications
Estimated percentage of peer-reviewed scholarly works published annually by the institution’s employees that are deposited in a designated open access repository:
Website URL where information about the institution’s support for open access is available:
Additional documentation to support the submission:
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