Overall Rating Gold
Overall Score 66.01
Liaison Lissette Hernandez
Submission Date July 1, 2024

STARS v2.2

Florida International University
AC-11: Open Access to Research

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 1.33 / 2.00 Lissette Hernandez
Director
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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://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/

A brief description of the open access repository:

Florida International University’s Institutional Repository serves as a centralized access point for peer-reviewed scholarship, creative works, and history of the university community. The repository is hosted by Berkley Electronic Press (BePress), which boasts a network of about 655 institutions across the globe. Our repository hosts over 29,000 open access articles, reports, presentations, images, and videos from over 65 departments and centers across the university. 


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? :
No

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:

FIU no longer offers such a fund due to budget limitations, but we do offer some discounts for authors who want to publish in OA (open access) journals. A list of these discounts and the process that must be followed to qualify for them is available on our OA LibGuide: https://library.fiu.edu/OAP 


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:

The Florida International University Libraries provide free open access journal hosting services to the university community through our Institutional Repository Digital Commons. Blind and double-blind peer review processes and editorial management services are built into the system functionality. Journal site design is offered at no cost to university groups creating new journals or transferring hosting. Information regarding submitting work to FIU’s Institutional Repository, Digital Commons, can be found here: https://library.fiu.edu/fiudigitalcommons/tools

 

FIU Libraries has its own journal for publishing the work of librarians and library affiliates. This is an in-house journal. There is a peer-review process associated with being published in this journal. Information on the journal, Athenaeum, and the process can be found here: https://library.fiu.edu/athenaeum.


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:
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