Overall Rating Silver
Overall Score 47.61
Liaison John Stolz
Submission Date March 6, 2025

STARS v2.2

Duquesne University
AC-11: Open Access to Research

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 2.00 / 2.00 Meghan Phillips
Graduate Assistant
Center for Environmental Research & Education
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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://dsc.duq.edu/

A brief description of the open access repository:

Duquesne University's Gumberg Library hosts and manages the Duquesne Scholarship Collection. It is an Open Access repository, and there are no restrictions on who can download its materials. Materials include: Electronic Theses and Dissertations collection, much of our Spiritan Collection, open access journals, faculty data and articles, and student publications.


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:

https://guides.library.duq.edu/c.php?g=973567&p=7037791


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?:
Yes

A brief description of the open access APC fund:

The Provost's Office provides an application for determining whether an employee is eligible for reimbursement of article processing charges (APCs). 



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:

Duquesne University's Gumberg Library hosts a few open access journals through the Duquesne Scholarship Collection at no cost to the faculty involved. A dedicated staff member provides a reasonable amount of publishing support in terms of the DSC itself (rights language, workflow help, etc.). The servers used are cloud-based. 


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:
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Website URL where information about the institution’s support for open access is available:
https://guides.library.duq.edu/c.php?g=973567&p=7037791

Additional documentation to support the submission:
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Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
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