Overall Rating Bronze - expired
Overall Score 34.80
Liaison Alicia Hodenfield
Submission Date June 27, 2016
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STARS v2.0

Sonoma State University
AC-11: Access to Research

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 0.00 / 2.00 Viri Ruiz
School Operations and Assistat to the Dean
Social Sciences
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Total number of institutional divisions (e.g. schools, colleges, departments) that produce research:
43

Number of divisions covered by a policy assuring open access to research:
0
+ Date Revised: Sept. 8, 2016

A brief description of the open access policy, including the date adopted and repository(ies) used:

Policy is still on formation. In 2015 University policy began to mandate that Masters Thesis be stores in our ScholarWorks database. Our Library's informal policy that only research available to all are included. SSU had begun developing its ScholarWorks collection in 2010.

+ Date Revised: Sept. 7, 2016

A copy of the open access policy:
The open access policy:

As stated above, the policy is still in formation. The only institutional mandate involves new Masters Theses.

+ Date Revised: Sept. 7, 2016

The website URL where the open access repository is available:
http://sonoma-dspace.calstate.edu/
+ Date Revised: Sept. 7, 2016

A brief description of how the institution’s library(ies) support open access to research:

Working through SSU ScholarWorks, Librarian Lynn Prime both solicits faculty submissions and then works through the copyright clearance process. The archived research is then made available through the web links provided here. Efforts are made by the library faculty and staff to familiarize students with this resources and assist them in accessing the archive.

+ Date Revised: Sept. 7, 2016

The website URL where information about open access to the institution's research is available:
http://library.sonoma.edu/research/scholarworks
+ Date Revised: Sept. 7, 2016

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