Carleton University
AC-11: Open Access to Research

Curve is an open access repository which holds academic research output and creative work voluntarily deposited by Carleton faculty, staff and students, as well as all dissertations and theses produced at Carleton.

Carleton University is committed to the principle of disseminating academic knowledge as widely and promptly as possible thereby increasing the impact of this research and expanding the scholarly discourse. In facilitating researchers to disseminate new knowledge, all methods are encouraged, including traditional commercial and learned society publications, and newer supplementary methods such as network sharing and open access methods.

While Carleton University strongly encourages faculty, staff and graduate students to deposit into CURVE electronic copies of their research papers, peer-reviewed articles, conference proceedings, other adjudicated research output, data sets, creative works and academic work in keeping with the standards of the author’s discipline, research output, data sets, creative works and academic work in keeping with the standards of the author’s discipline.

The Carleton University Research Impact Endeavour (CURIE) fund was initiated in 2011 as part of Carleton's overall strategy to support Open Access and Scholarly Publishing.

Carleton university’s journal hosting service enables open access publishing for the Carleton community, with support for every stage of the refereed publishing process, from submissions management through to online publication and indexing through major search engines like Google Scholar.

Carleton partners editors and journal teams through journal setup, training and ongoing support.
The Carleton library will support faculty and students through the initial set-up and work with through various implementation decisions under control (e.g. peer review model, assignment of editorial and journal manager roles, etc.)

The Support overview provided by the Library includes:
• Initial setup and consultation for implementing an open journal
• Journal hosting on a robust network with long-term access and preservation in mind - we manage and maintain the OJS software and server upgrades using PKP's Open Journal Systems platform
• Discovery and access – consultations on getting your journal included in academic indexes and other major search engines and journal directories; support for DOI, ORCID and other metadata connectors; ensuring platform supports current practice in discovery and access.
• Training on the journal submission process, including workflow support (we can provide sample policies and statements for you to customize copyright, guidelines for reviewers, editors, and authors etc.)
• Ongoing technical support for troubleshooting issues after your journal goes live

A full outline of all hosting services, through which peer-reviewed open access journal are available, is include on the Carleton website at: https://library.carleton.ca/services/open-journal-hosting-ojs