Overall Rating Silver - expired
Overall Score 61.36
Liaison Elizabeth Swiman
Submission Date Jan. 30, 2015
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Florida State University
AC-11: Access to Research

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 2.00 / 2.00 Elizabeth Swiman
Director of Campus Sustainability
Facilities
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Total number of institutional divisions (e.g. schools, colleges, departments) that produce research:
17

Number of divisions covered by a policy assuring open access to research:
17

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

FSU supports the principle of open access and officially endorsed it in a 2011 Faculty Senate resolution. University Libraries' Scholarly Communication Office provides consultations and information about open access, as well as resources like DigiNole Commons, FSU's institutional repository, and administration of the Open Access Publishing Fund.

DigiNole Commons is a service of The Florida State University Libraries. Research and scholarly output included here has been selected and deposited by the individual university departments, research units and faculty on campus. Currently, 628 disciplines are available for exploration.


A copy of the open access policy:
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The open access policy:

The Florida State University Faculty Senate - Open Access Resolution
Approved by Faculty Senate, Oct. 19, 2011

The faculty of The Florida State University is committed to disseminating its research and scholarship as widely as possible. This resolution is intended both to confirm the public benefit of such dissemination and to serve faculty interests by promoting greater reach and impact for scholarly publications. In keeping with these commitments, the Faculty Senate adopts the following resolution.

Resolution
The Faculty Senate of The Florida State University, consistent with the University’s mission to “preserve, expand and disseminate knowledge” and to provide broad access to institutional resources and services, endorses the storage and preservation of scholarly publications in The Florida State University’s open access institutional repository.

This resolution aims to extend the university's mission into the digital age. Its goals are to remove access barriers to publicly-funded scholarship, to centralize the University’s intellectual output while maintaining quality filters and supporting established publishing opportunities, and to support faculty who wish to pursue open access publishing whenever consistent with their professional goals.

Resolution Implementation
Implementation of this resolution is dependent on the foundation and development of infrastructure, including a university library-supported institutional repository and Scholarly Communications staff who will coordinate and facilitate the digital collection process for faculty. The Faculty Senate calls upon the Faculty Senate Library Committee and the Florida State University Libraries to explore and address the implementation of this resolution, including the needs to:
● protect authors’ intellectual property
● maintain Florida State University standards for Promotion and Tenure
● promote quality and prestige in scholarly publishing
● develop policies and procedures for the governance of this resolution
● explore scholarship publishing in emerging platforms and digital contexts

The Faculty Senate, Vice President for Faculty Development and Advancement and the Dean of the University Libraries will be responsible for interpreting this resolution. The resolution and its implementation will be reviewed yearly in conjunction with the Faculty Senate Library Committee with a report presented to the Faculty Senate.


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:

The Open Access Publishing Fund, administered by the Florida State University Libraries, is to support publishing costs for eligible open access (OA) journals and books when no alternative funding is available, thereby fostering the exploration of new and innovative publishing models.

Florida State University strives to "preserve, expand and disseminate knowledge." One manner of achieving that goal is for Florida State University authors to make their research available as open access. Florida State University joins other universities in the United States and Europe in offering its authors access to funding to assist with publication charges for open access journals and books.


The website URL where information about open access to the institution's research is available:
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