Cal Poly Humboldt
AC-11: Open Access to Research

HSU Digital Commons is a publishing model started in 2015 that promotes research, scholarly publications, and creative works from Humboldt State University and Humboldt State University Press. The model advances knowledge as a publisher of educational, scholarly, trade books, and creative works. HSU Library provides opportunities to publish and share research with the academic and global community, including: journal hosting, conference management, book publishing, editorial and peer-review tools, and scholar pages.

The library offers financial incentives to authors who publish with HSU Digital Commons by providing editing services at no cost and otherwise housing the literary work and making it available to a wide audience at no additional cost. In addition, The Affordable Learning Solutions Program (AL$) began in July, 2015. The program supports two areas:
1. Pays up to 4 faculty $1,500 each to bring an open access textbook to press. To apply they must meet with our publishing team and meet the criteria for open access.
2. Pays up to 50 faculty $300 each to attend workshops that help them to identify existing open access material that can be incorporated into existing classes.

AL$ funding information: http://www.affordablelearningsolutions.org/home

Assembly Bill 798 funding information: http://www.cool4ed.org/rfp.html for more information.

Cool4Ed Information: http://www.cool4ed.org/rfp.html

Humboldt Digital Scholar is a repository which supports the open access publishing model. As such, it is a fundamental step in transforming scholarly communication and providing more comprehensive access to research for scholars everywhere. Through this resource, the Library provides editing assistance and generally assists scholars with getting their work out to the public. This resource was stared in 2004.

http://libguides.humboldt.edu/c.php?g=443839&p=3026912
http://digitalcommons.humboldt.edu/
https://library.humboldt.edu/about/HSUPress.html

We have the following recommendation:

RESOLVED: That the Academic Senate of Humboldt State University recommends
that all faculty make a reasonable effort to acquire or retain the rights to place their
publications in an open-access institutional archive. Approved August 30, 2005

Resolution02-05-06-EXFINAL.doc

There is no cost to the author to publish with Humboldt State University Press. There is no policy for paying APC's.

Humboldt State University Press has published:

Humboldt Journal of Social Relations

IdeaFest: Interdisciplinary Journal of Creative Works and Research from Humboldt State University

Journal, Arcata High School, The World "The way we saw it"

Redwood Roots Magazine

Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, Innovative Pedagogy

The International Journal of Ecopsychology (IJE)

Toyon Literary Magazine

https://digitalcommons.humboldt.edu/peer_review_list.html