Overall Rating Gold - expired
Overall Score 68.17
Liaison Ian Johnson
Submission Date March 4, 2020

STARS v2.2

Colorado College
AC-11: Open Access to Research

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 0.67 / 2.00 Ian Johnson
Sustainability Director
Office of Sustainability
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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:
A brief description of the open access repository:
The current repository collects and preserves student theses, faculty works, and digitized collections from Tutt Library’s Special Collections Department that reflect the history of the College. Our future repository will hold all these digital materials and also incorporate open access journal publishing.

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:
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Does the policy cover the entire institution? :
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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:
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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?:
No

A brief description of the open access journal hosting services:
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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:
16

Website URL where information about the institution’s support for open access is available:
Additional documentation to support the submission:
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Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
APC Fund: The library does not have an APC fund per se but does support open access initiatives and OA publishing discounts through SPARC, BioMedCentral, and MDPI memberships. In the future, we are hoping to offer grant money to encourage and compensate faculty publishing in Open Access journals and/or the digital repository.

Colorado College has a policy stating that it "supports the concept of open access to scholarly work and encourages faculty, students, and staff to share their intellectual property" (https://www.coloradocollege.edu/basics/welcome/leadership/policies/intellectual-property-and-copyright). Faculty, staff, and students are encouraged to share their scholarly work. The Digital Archives of Colorado College (https://digitalcc.coloradocollege.edu/islandora/object/coccc%3Aroot) is the college’s repository for storing research data and allowing open access. However, there is no formal policy assuring open access to scholarly work in any department.

Open Access Percentage Data from Diane Westerfield
Methodology
In Web of Science, searched for Colorado Coll in Enhanced Organization field
Limited to year 2017 and exported results directly to Excel (RefWorks not required for this step): 101 results.
From spreadsheet, removed articles not written by CC faculty or teaching staff and one duplicate: 85 results
Used Google for each article title to look for deposit in open repositories and/or publication in completely open access journals: 13 results
13/85 = 15%

This Year's Information Included Below:
We currently have a digital repository and are about to adopt a new product called TIND. The current digital repository does have some Open Access articles in it.

Not yet but with our new digital repository TIND, we intend to provide open access journal services.

Used Web of Science to generate a list of articles with “Colorado College” as enhanced organization (indicating one or more authors connected to CC). Result was 107 articles. Examine each article’s authors for CC faculty and employees (including visiting faculty), excluding students; also removed one listing that was a correction to another article. Result: 98 articles. Checked each of these articles via Google for open access. Although 28 were freely available, only 16 were available in repositories (the remaining 12 were in open access journals, or published as open access in mixed journals, but not found in repositories). 16 / 98 = 16% deposited in Open Access repositories.

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