| Overall Rating | Gold |
|---|---|
| Overall Score | 68.45 |
| Liaison | Keisha Payson |
| Submission Date | May 8, 2024 |
Bowdoin College
AC-11: Open Access to Research
| Status | Score | Responsible Party |
|---|---|---|
|
2.00 / 2.00 |
Keisha
Payson Sustainability Director Sustainable Bowdoin |
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?:
Website URL where the open access repository is available:
A brief description of the open access repository:
Bowdoin Digital Commons is an institutional repository administered by the Bowdoin College Library. It provides a place to collect, manage, and provide open access to the digitally published scholarship of Bowdoin faculty and students, special collections holdings, and archival records.
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:
The institution's open access policy:
Does the policy cover the entire institution? :
Does the institution provide an open access article processing charge (APC) fund for employees?:
A brief description of the open access APC fund:
While there is not a specific fund to cover costs of publishing open access, Colby, Bates, and Bowdoin have made an agreement with Cambridge University Press to support Open Access publishing. Bowdoin faculty can publish articles Open Access, at no cost, in gold and hybrid journals (at present, more than 370 journals are covered by the agreement). Additionally, the Faculty Resource Committee solicits requests three times per year from faculty for funding research, including publication costs. Resources to pay "open access fees" is one of the eligible funding areas made available by the committee.
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:
On the Bowdoin Digital Commons vendor platform, the library hosts Dissidences. This journal is sponsored by the Department of Romance Languages and the Latin American Studies Program at Bowdoin College and is concerned with the problems of literary and cultural theory and the study of the Spanish and Latin American literatures and cultures of all periods. The journal emphatically encourages the submission of essays conceived at the crossroads of critical inquiry and theoretical discussion, and it has a pluralistic policy regarding the perspectives to be explored in those essays. Articles are published immediately after they are approved according to our policies and following our submission guidelines.
Estimated percentage of peer-reviewed scholarly works published annually by the institution’s employees that are deposited in a designated open access repository:
Website URL where information about the institution’s support for open access is available:
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