| Overall Rating | Gold |
|---|---|
| Overall Score | 65.69 |
| Liaison | Alan Turnquist |
| Submission Date | July 24, 2023 |
Michigan Technological University
AC-11: Open Access to Research
| Status | Score | Responsible Party |
|---|---|---|
|
0.67 / 2.00 |
Alan
Turnquist Director of Sustainability and Resilience Office of the President |
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:
Digital Commons @ Michigan Tech is a digital repository that highlights the research, scholarship, campus publications and other creative works by members of the Michigan Tech community. The repository provides full-text, open access to works as appropriate under existing copyright policies and serves as a publishing platform for original content.
737 works that were published open access by Michigan Tech authors in the last 5 years have been made available full-text through Digital Commons @ Michigan Tech, the University’s institutional repository.
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:
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:
Peer-reviewed, open access journals could be published and hosted in Digital Commons @ Michigan Tech. However, while this platform does have a dedicated staff member to assist in providing some publishing support at no cost, it provides cloud storage, as opposed to local server storage.
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:
Digital Commons @ Michigan Tech has a collection highlighting open access publications that can be viewed here: https://digitalcommons.mtu.edu/michigantech-p-oa
Digital Commons @ Michigan Tech has a collection highlighting open access publications that can be viewed here: https://digitalcommons.mtu.edu/michigantech-p-oa
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