Overall Rating Silver - expired
Overall Score 47.67
Liaison Holly Andersen
Submission Date Jan. 26, 2021

STARS v2.2

Bennington College
AC-11: Open Access to Research

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 0.67 / 2.00
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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://crossettlibrary.dspacedirect.org/handle/11209/8744

A brief description of the open access repository:
Faculty Open Access Resolution, October 2016

The Faculty of Bennington College is resolved to share our scholarship widely by having our work available in the College’s institutional repository. By providing open access to our research and data we encourage the broadest use of our scholarship to support the research and education of all, regardless of means or affiliation.

This commitment to sharing our work with the public and academic community includes electronic versions of articles and data sets that faculty has submitted to the Bennington College Digital Repository. The library will help obtain open access copyrights from publishers, and will assist the faculty in the wide distribution of their scholarship.

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?:
No

A copy of the institution's open access policy:
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The institution's open access policy:
https://crossettlibrary.dspacedirect.org/handle/11209/8744 and https://www.bennington.edu/faculty/faculty-handbook/educational-principles/open-access

Does the policy cover the entire institution? :
No

APC fund

Does the institution provide an open access article processing charge (APC) fund for employees?:
No

A brief description of the open access APC fund:
N/A

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?:
No

A brief description of the open access journal hosting services:
Please see the attached link. https://www.google.com/url?q=https://library.bennington.edu/screens/open_access.html&sa=D&source=editors&ust=1614265048288000&usg=AOvVaw2cKALx54lS2l-GmZ-PlmuE

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:
100

Website URL where information about the institution’s support for open access is available:
https://crossettlibrary.dspacedirect.org/handle/11209/8744

Additional documentation to support the submission:
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Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
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