Overall Rating	Gold
Overall Score	77.56
Liaison	John Pumilio
Submission Date	Oct. 11, 2022

STARS v2.2

Colgate University
AC-11: Open Access to Research

Status	Score	Responsible Party
	2.00 / 2.00	John Pumilio Director of Sustainability Sustainability 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://digitalcollections.colgate.edu/?page=1

A brief description of the open access repository:

Colgate is still in the process of migrating platforms, but this is the start of the university's open access repository.

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?:

Yes

A brief description of the open access APC fund:

Yes. At Colgate, it is called the Publication Expenses Grant administered by the Faculty Research Council.

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:

Colgate is looking to expand this in the future. For now, the only example where the university provides open access journal hosting is the Department of Economics Working Papers.
https://digitalcollections.colgate.edu/collections/department-economics-working-papers.

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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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