Overall Rating	Bronze - expired
Overall Score	32.46
Liaison	Feng Teter
Submission Date	Aug. 7, 2020

STARS v2.2

California State University, Fresno
AC-11: Open Access to Research

Status	Score	Responsible Party
	2.00 / 2.00	Beth Weinman Associate Professor Earth and Environmental Sciences

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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:

http://repository.library.fresnostate.edu/

A brief description of the open access repository:

The Fresno State Digital Repository is the open access repository for the intellectual and cultural capital of California State University, Fresno. It collects, preserves, and provides access to the scholarly, creative, instructional, and administrative work of campus faculty, staff, and in some cases students. We are soon migrating this to Scholarworks: https://scholarworks.calstate.edu/

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:

No. There has been effort to try to create a CSU system-wide policy through the Academic Senate:
http://libraryguides.fullerton.edu/open-access/GreenOAPolicy

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?:

Yes

A brief description of the open access APC fund:

The Henry Madden Library recognizes that these fees create an obstacle to authors, and has therefore created an Open Access Publishing Fund to subsidize these fees for Fresno State faculty and graduate students who wish to publish their work in Open Access journals. The fund provides up to $2,000 per article, with a limit of $2,000 per author per academic year. Applications are accepted on a first-come, first-served basis until funding for the academic year has been exhausted.
https://library.fresnostate.edu/service/open-access-publishing-fund

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:

CSU Open Journals provides hosting for journals created and managed by The California State University. In cooperation with the CSU libraries, the service is supported by Systemwide Digital Library Services of the Chancellor's Office.

https://journals.calstate.edu/index

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:

Website URL where information about the institution’s support for open access is available:

https://guides.library.fresnostate.edu/scholarlycommunication

Additional documentation to support the submission:

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Data source(s) and notes about the submission:

Estimated percentage of peer reviewed scholarly work published annually that are deposited in a designated open access repository:
Yes. For 2015-2019: 29.0%. For 2010-2019: 38.7%

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