| Overall Rating | Gold |
|---|---|
| Overall Score | 75.39 |
| Liaison | Stephanie MacPhee |
| Submission Date | Feb. 5, 2025 |
Dalhousie University
AC-11: Open Access to Research
| Status | Score | Responsible Party |
|---|---|---|
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1.33 / 2.00 |
Stephanie
MacPhee Executive Director Office of Sustainability |
Open access repository
Website URL where the open access repository is available:
A brief description of the open access repository:
DalSpace hosts and provides access to the intellectual output of the Dalhousie community. There is a mandatory e-theses deposit program in place for all masters and PhD theses. Materials in DalSpace are open to anyone and will be preserved for future generations.
Open access policy
A copy of the institution's open access policy:
The institution's open access policy:
As part of our commitment to open access we do have a number of APC discounts or memberships that are available to the Dalhousie Faculty, Staff, and Students and in many cases provide 100% coverage of APCs. Information about what is available can be found here: https://dal.ca.libguides.com/open_access/apc
More information our OA support is available here:
https://blogs.dal.ca/libraries/2022/03/commitment-to-open-scholarship-at-dalhousie/
Does the policy cover the entire institution? :
APC fund
A brief description of the open access APC fund:
Dalhousie does not have an author fund to directly cover the cost associated with Author Processing Charges (APCs). However, the team from Dalhousie Libraries, often as part of a Canadian consortium (CRKN - the Canadian Research Knowledge Network) has negotiated transformative agreements that include discounts or waivers of APC charges. Please see the table below.
The following Dalhousie memberships and discounts are currently available. Please use your Dalhousie email address when submitting. Never assume that a discount will be automatically applied. Always check with the publisher to confirm the discount.
Free to Publish
- Cambridge University Press
- The Company of Biologists
- Elsevier ScienceDirect (hybrid journals)
- Open Library of the Humanities (OLH)
- Oxford University Press (OUP) (hybrid journals)
- PLoS Medicine and PLOS Biology
- Royal Society of Chemistry
- Royal Society of London
- SAGE Choice (hybrid journals)
- Wiley (hybrid journals)
Partially Discounted Publishing
Open access journal hosting
A brief description of the open access journal hosting services:
Yes, we provide hosting services for Open Journal Systems (OJS). The Dalhousie University Libraries Journal Hosting Service provides a digital publishing option to the university community using the Open Journal Systems (OJS) online journal production software (a collaborative, open source software project maintained by the Public Knowledge Project).
The Libraries handle the initial set-up of journals, answer questions about how to use the software, and can make recommendations about how to implement the journal. The journal owners are responsible for publishing content, managing subscribers, and customizing the design of the journal.
Optional Fields
Website URL where information about the institution’s support for open access is available:
Additional documentation to support the submission:
Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
We support Open Education Resources with hosting services, discovery support, and OER development grants https://dal.ca.libguides.com/textbooks
We are also partners in the AtlanticOER initiative: https://atlanticoer-relatlantique.ca/
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