Cal Poly Humboldt
AC-11: Open Access to Research

The Cal Poly Humboldt Digital Commons platform started in 2015 as a site that promotes research, scholarly publications, and creative works from Cal Poly Humboldt, the Press at Cal Poly Humboldt, and community collaborations. The Cal Poly Humboldt Digital Commons platform provides opportunities to post content and share research with the academic and global community, including supporting journal hosting, conference management, book publishing, editorial and peer-review tools, and open educational resources. The Press at Cal Poly Humboldt uses the Digital Commons platform to advance knowledge as a publisher of educational, scholarly, trade books, and creative works. The Press at Cal Poly Humboldt provides editing, design, and layout services at no cost, while the Digital Commons platform houses the research and literary work and makes it freely available to an international audience using advanced search engine optimization. The Humboldt “Sustainable Learning” efforts offer $300 to faculty who participate in current faculty training, utilizing campus Librarians to support low/no cost adoptions, meeting criteria for open access.

AL$ funding information: http://www.affordablelearningsolutions.org/home
Assembly Bill 798 funding information: https://www.cool4ed.org/ab798 for more information.
Cool4Ed Information: https://www.cool4ed.org/ab798_bonus_funding

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 started in 2004.

We have the following recommendation: RESOLVED: That the Academic Senate of Cal Poly Humboldt 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 Cal Poly Humboldt Press. There is no policy for paying APC's.

The Cal Poly Humboldt Library uses the Digital Commons platform to host journal publications from the Press at Cal Poly Humboldt, the Cal Poly Humboldt campus, and community collaborations. All works are available in open-access and require no charges nor APC’s for publication.:
- Academic Labor: Research and Artistry
- Celebrating Writers and Writing in our Communities
- CouRaGeouS Cuentos: A Journal of Counternarratives
- CSU Journal of Sustainability and Climate Change
- Humboldt Geographic
- Humboldt Journal of Social Relations
- IdeaFest: Interdisciplinary Journal of Creative Works and Research from Humboldt State University
- Redwood Roots Digital Magazine
- Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, Innovative Pedagogy
- The International Journal of Ecopsychology (IJE)
- Toyon Literary Magazine
- The World "The way we saw it" journal, Arcata High School
- The World "The way we saw it" journal, Cal Poly Humboldt World Languages and Cultures