Overall Rating	Silver
Overall Score	55.77
Liaison	Susan Kaspari
Submission Date	July 16, 2022

STARS v2.2

Central Washington University
AC-11: Open Access to Research

Status	Score	Responsible Party
	1.33 / 2.00	Susan Kaspari Professor Geological 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:

https://digitalcommons.cwu.edu

A brief description of the open access repository:

The repository is a service of the Central Washington University libraries. Collections include: faculty scholarship, student scholarship (including a retrospective theses collection), historic documents from CWU and community collections.

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:

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APC fund

Does the institution provide an open access article processing charge (APC) fund for employees?:

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:

CWU offers journal hosting services through ScholarWorks. We currently have two journals (links below). We offer the ability for authors to submit their work, editors to send the articles to reviewers, and reviewers to send back the reviews and then the editor to publish the articles. We also offer a checklist for any department that would like to create a journal describing what information we need to create the journal page and allow them to begin accepting submissions.

https://digitalcommons.cwu.edu/cascadiachron/
https://digitalcommons.cwu.edu/mathcirclesjournal/

We try to create a record with a link for 100% of the published scholarly output from CWU professors. When copyright allows, we put the published version in ScholarWorks. We have done a retrospective of all past published work from CWU authors.

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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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