| Overall Rating | Silver |
|---|---|
| Overall Score | 47.06 |
| Liaison | Daniela Shebitz |
| Submission Date | Dec. 11, 2023 |
Kean University
AC-11: Open Access to Research
| Status | Score | Responsible Party |
|---|---|---|
|
2.00 / 2.00 |
David
Farrokh Assistant Dean College of Business |
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:
Institutional Repositories Kean University has implemented "Kean Digital Learning Commons (KDLC)" to collect, preserve, archive, and make accessible scholarly and creative works, research data, and other materials produced by the faculty, staff, and students of Kean University. KDLC will serve as a common repository for all Open Educational Resources. Institutional Repositories (IRs) combine all of a University's research under one umbrella to preserve and provide access to that research.
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:
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:
An APC fund is provided if Kean faculty publishes in Q1 or Q2 journals.
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:
Kean University provides open access journal hosting services through CORE and All Academic.
CORE harvests research papers from data providers from all over the world including institutional and subject repositories, open access and hybrid journal publishers. CORE currently contains 135,539,113 open access articles, from thousands and over tens of thousands of journals, collected from 5,969 data providers around the world.
All Academic is an application service provider specializing in tools for the academic research community. It provides convention and abstract management services, archiving of academic materials, and tools for academic research.
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:
Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
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