Overall Rating Silver - expired
Overall Score 60.97
Liaison Natalie Hayes
Submission Date Aug. 6, 2020

STARS v2.2

Bentley University
AC-11: Open Access to Research

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 0.67 / 2.00 Natalie Hayes
Associate Director of Sustainability
Office of Sustainability
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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://scholars.bentley.edu/

A brief description of the open access repository:
The library has an open access repository called Scholars @ Bentley. Scholars @ Bentley is a digital archive that collects and preserves the intellectual output of Bentley faculty and students. This service of the Bentley University Library provides open, worldwide access to these materials and promotes Bentley scholarship, teaching, and learning.

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:
Faculty are required to list their publications in Digital Measures, but DM is not an open access repository.

Does the policy cover the entire institution? :
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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:
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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:
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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:
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Additional documentation to support the submission:
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Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
This information is from Hope Houston in the library.

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