Overall Rating Silver
Overall Score 64.62
Liaison Sarah Fortner
Submission Date March 3, 2022

STARS v2.2

Carleton College
AC-11: Open Access to Research

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 0.67 / 2.00 Alexandra Miller
Sustainability Program Coordinator
Energy and 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://digitalcommons.carleton.edu/

A brief description of the open access repository:
Carleton Digital Commons is a place for open access publishing and other collected research, scholarship, and creative expression of Carleton College faculty, staff, and students.

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:
The library actively supports open access publishing and is a founding member of the Lever Press, (https://www.leverpress.org/) an open access, peer-reviewed, digitally native press aligned with the mission of liberal arts colleges. As mentioned above, the library also supports Knowledge Unlatched and we participate in other open access ventures such as the Center for Research Libraries’ Global Press Archive. In addition, and in support of open access and the college’s public scholarship initiative, the library has established the Carleton Digital Commons http://digitalcommons.carleton.edu/, the institutional repository for the campus. The campus also supports other options/platforms for open access publishing, such as web pages, etc.

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:
https://digitalcommons.carleton.edu/

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