Overall Rating Gold
Overall Score 65.14
Liaison Bremen Leak
Submission Date July 10, 2024

STARS v2.2

Brigham Young University
AC-11: Open Access to Research

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 1.33 / 2.00 Bremen Leak
Associate Director
Sustainability & Continuity
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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://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/

A brief description of the open access repository:

ScholarsArchive is BYU's institutional repository for the scholarly and creative content produced by the university. ScholarsArchive makes research, publications, data, and journals produced by BYU faculty and students, as well as streaming video and audio, available to a global research audience, with some 12.4 million downloads to date.


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:
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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?:
Yes

A brief description of the open access journal hosting services:

As mentioned previously, the BYU Library provides a publishing platform called ScholarsArchive for peer-reviewed open access journals, and a full-time staff member manages this platform. Scholars Archive is an active publishing platform for 33 journals and an archive for 33 inactive journals.


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://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/

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