Claremont McKenna College
AC-11: Open Access to Research

The Claremont Colleges Library's Scholarly Communication, Digital Publishing, and Digital Initiatives departments provide access to and delivery of the scholarship created by the Claremont Colleges students, faculty, and staff in support of the research and instructional missions of the colleges. In addition, the departments work to digitally preserve and make accessible items from the library's Special Collections, as well as items from The Claremont Colleges and surrounding community. The Scholarly Communication, Digital Publishing, and Digital Initiatives departments provide: Support in building and maintaining historical, educational, and visual resources collections created both by and for The Claremont Colleges community, please see the Claremont Colleges Digital Library. The Claremont Colleges Digital Library (CCDL) provides access to historical and visual resources collections created both by and for The Claremont Colleges community. Visibility to Claremont affiliated publications, faculty and student scholarship, and digital humanities projects, as well as creation and management tools for journals, with Scholarship@Claremont. Consultative services in the areas of digital projects, journal publishing and scholarly communications. Website: http://scholarship.claremont.edu/submit_research.html

The Library OA Position "Successful policies are implemented through expectations, education, incentives, and assistance, not coercion." Peter Suber To disseminate our (librarians') scholarship as broadly as possible. We endeavor to make our scholarly work openly accessible in conformance with open access principles. Whenever possible, we make our scholarship available in digital format, online, and free of charge. To grant the Claremont Colleges Library (CCL) a Creative Commons “Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States” license to each of our scholarly works to allow the CCL the right to archive and make publicly available the full text of our scholarly works via the Claremont Colleges's digital repository, Scholarship@Claremont. To deposit the author’s final version of our scholarly work in the Scholarship@Claremont as soon as is possible, recognizing that some publishers may impose an embargo period. To seek publishers whose policies allow us to make our scholarly works freely available online. When a publisher’s policies do not allow us to make our works freely available online, we resolve to engage in good faith negotiations with the publisher to allow deposit of pre- or post-print versions of our scholarly work in the digital repository. To promote Open Access content and tools as resources and to assist scholars in making their research openly available. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/policies.html

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