Overall Rating Silver
Overall Score 56.16
Liaison Matthew Liesch
Submission Date May 13, 2024

STARS v2.2

Central Michigan University
AC-11: Open Access to Research

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 0.67 / 2.00 Timothy Peters
Associate Dean/Libraries
Library Dean's Office
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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://scholarly.cmich.edu

A brief description of the open access repository:
The CMU Scholarly and Creative Works collection holds 2,060 documents that were created by faculty, staff and students of Central Michigan University. The categories are divided by faculty/staff research, undergraduate research, graduate research, music scores collections, and “Other Materials,” which contains a large variety of other items.

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:
N/A

Does the policy cover the entire institution? :
No

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:
Though CMU does not have an APC fund, CMU does have a Faculty Research and Creative Endeavors fund. This is a discretionary fund for faculty to use if they want to publish research and, though it does not cover any the open access fee, it does pay for per page costs if there are any associated with publishing open access documents.

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:
N/A

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:
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Additional documentation to support the submission:
FRCE-Publication-Exhibition-Cost-Guidelines-2022-2023-08152022.pdf

Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
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