Overall Rating	Bronze
Overall Score	41.18
Liaison	Mira Dzhakshylykova
Submission Date	July 19, 2024

STARS v2.2

American University of Central Asia
AC-11: Open Access to Research

Status	Score	Responsible Party
	1.33 / 2.00	Mira Dzhakshylykova Sustainability Coordinator Center for Civic Engagement

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Open access repository

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:

https://dspace.auca.kg/

A brief description of the open access repository:

AUCA Library maintains the institutional repository which serves as platform to archive and make publicly accessible the articles, book chapters and other scholarly content by the university community. Currently, the repository has over 1,100 documents.
Publication in the Digital Repository is regulated by the Kyrgyz Republic’s Law on Copyright and Related Rights and does not entail any limitations on author’s rights to the submitted work. Author retains all rights to the intellectual work. Documents are published under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Open access policy

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:

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The institution's open access policy:

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APC fund

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

Yes

A brief description of the open access APC fund:

AUCA Library promotes waived or discounted Article Processing Charges (APCs) available to the university community through the Library’s membership with EIFL International Library Consortium. Authors from Kyrgyzstan are eligible for waived or discounted Article Processing Charges (APCs) to publish their articles in Open Access journals with 14 international academic publishers, including Sage, Taylor & Francis, Cambridge University Press, and others. These agreements are negotiated by the Electronic Information for Libraries (EIFL) Consortium and cover over 1,500 Hybrid or Fully Open Access journals. https://www.eifl.net/apcs

Open access journal hosting

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:

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Optional Fields

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://library.auca.kg/openaccess/

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