Overall Rating	Gold
Overall Score	70.92
Liaison	Amy Brunvand
Submission Date	Sept. 12, 2023

STARS v2.2

University of Utah
AC-11: Open Access to Research

Status	Score	Responsible Party
	2.00 / 2.00	Amy Brunvand Librarian Office of Sustainability

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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?:

Yes

Website URL where the open access repository is available:

http://uspace.utah.edu

A brief description of the open access repository:

UScholar Works, University of Utah Libraries
URL: https://lib.utah.edu/digital-scholarship/uspace-uscholar
Within the USpace Institutional Repository, UScholar Works houses electronic theses and dissertations (ETD's), open access faculty works, and other works of digital scholarship generated by members of the University of Utah community. USpace offers a no-cost option for open access self-archiving.

The Hive: University of Utah Data Repository, University of Utah Libraries
URL: https://hive.utah.edu/
The University of Utah’s research data repository is designed to broadly disseminate intellectual contributions in research and creativity produced by the University's faculty, staff and students in order to ensure its longevity. Data stored in The Hive must be created by University of Utah students, faculty, or staff.

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?:

Yes

A copy of the institution's open access policy:

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The institution's open access policy:

Public Access Policy Compliance

Purpose
Compliance with National Institutes of Health (NIH) Public Access Policy requirements.

Applicability
All investigators with NIH funding including subrecipient investigators and collaborators are responsible for ensuring that evidence of compliance is included in all NIH applications, proposals and report.

The NIH Public Access Policy applies to all peer-reviewed journal articles published on or after April 7, 2008 that arise from direct funding from an NIH grant or cooperative agreement. Principal Investigators (PIs) are responsible for making sure that all papers that are based on research from their NIH grants (whether they are an author of the paper, or not) are made available through PubMed Central. Compliance is managed in "My NCBI", a system managed by the National Library of Medicine, National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI).

From Office of Sponsored Projects Procedure Library
URL: https://osp.utah.edu/policies/procedure-library/public-access

Does the policy cover the entire institution? :

Does the institution provide an open access article processing charge (APC) fund for employees?:

Yes

A brief description of the open access APC fund:

In January 2021, the J. Willard Marriott Library entered into an open access read-and-publish agreement with Cambridge University press that allows allows any U of U faculty, staff, or student to publish open access articles in 380 journals without paying costly APCs. In addition, the Library has APC agreements with the Electrochemical Society (3 journals), Association of Computing Machinery (68 journals) and a 10% APC discount for MDPI 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?:

Yes

A brief description of the open access journal hosting services:

Epublications, University of Utah J. Willard Marriott Library
URL: http://epubs.utah.edu
The Library hosts open access journals using the Open Journal Systems platform. Sustainability-related titles include Utah Environmental Law Review, Hinkley Journal of Politics, and the Journal of Dark Sky Studies.

Estimated percentage of peer-reviewed scholarly works published annually by the institution’s employees that are deposited in a designated open access repository:

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Website URL where information about the institution’s support for open access is available:

https://campusguides.lib.utah.edu/agreements

Additional documentation to support the submission:

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NOTE

On August 25, 2022, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) instructed federal agencies with research and development expenditures to make publications and research funded by taxpayers publicly accessible without an embargo or cost. Federal agencies were directed to update public access policies no later than December 31, 2025. In Fy2022 the University of Utah received a total $686 million in research funding with 69% of the total from federal grants, and 51% of the total subject to the NIH Public Access Policy.

SOURCES

Researcher & Author Services, J. Willard Marriott Library
URL: https://lib.utah.edu/services/author

Read-and-Publish Agreements: Researchers, Librarians, Publishers Working Together Towards an Open Access Future.
Allyson Mower, J. Willard Marriott Library
URL: https://campusguides.lib.utah.edu/agreements

NIH Public Access Policy
Nena Schvaneveldt, Eccles Health Sciences Library
URL: https://campusguides.lib.utah.edu/nihpublicaccesspolicy

OSTP Public Access Memo. White House. August, 25, 2022
URL: https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/08-2022-OSTP-Public-Access-Memo.pdf

UResearch fact Sheet FY 2022
Vice President for Research
URL: https://research.utah.edu/research/facts-figures

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