Overall Rating Silver - expired
Overall Score 45.08
Liaison Jessica Krejcik
Submission Date Feb. 5, 2016
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STARS v2.0

Concordia University
AC-11: Access to Research

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 2.00 / 2.00 Guylaine Beaudry
Vice-Provost Digital Strategy & University Librarian
Library
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Total number of institutional divisions (e.g. schools, colleges, departments) that produce research:
45

Number of divisions covered by a policy assuring open access to research:
45

A brief description of the open access policy, including the date adopted and repository(ies) used:

In April 2010, Concordia’s Senate passed a Resolution on Open Access encouraging faculty and students to make their peer-reviewed research and creative output freely accessible by depositing it in Spectrum, Concordia's institutional repository, or another open access venue. Concordia is the first major university in Canada where faculty have given their overwhelming support to a concerted effort to make the full results of their research universally available in this way.

In September 2011, Concordia's Senate unanimously recommended that the university president sign the Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities on behalf of the university, extending the University's commitment to making knowledge produced by its faculty and students universally accessible.

Concordia is a founding member of the Coalition of Open Access Policy Institutions (COAPI), a coalition of 22 North American universities and colleges with faculty Open Access policies, formed to share Open Access implementation strategies and advocate for Open Access institutions. Concordia is also a member of SPARC® (the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition), an international alliance of academic and research libraries working to stimulate the emergence of new scholarly communication models that expand the dissemination of scholarly research and reduce financial pressures on libraries.


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The open access policy:
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The website URL where the open access repository is available:
A brief description of how the institution’s library(ies) support open access to research:
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The website URL where information about open access to the institution's research is available:
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