Overall Rating Silver
Overall Score 62.34
Liaison Christie-Joy Hartman
Submission Date Jan. 27, 2022

STARS v2.2

James Madison University
AC-11: Open Access to Research

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 1.33 / 2.00 Keith Holland
Associate Vice Provost
Research and Scholarship
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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:
A brief description of the open access repository:

JMU Scholarly Commons is an open repository service provided by JMU Libraries to showcase research and scholarship from the JMU community. It includes peer-reviewed journal articles, conference papers and posters, theses and dissertations, Special Collections materials, and more.


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? :
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Does the institution provide an open access article processing charge (APC) fund for employees?:
No

A brief description of the open access APC fund:
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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:

Several open access journals are hosted in our institutional repository, JMU Scholarly Commons. Librarians offer technical and administrative support to authors and editors.
https://commons.lib.jmu.edu


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

Information provided by Kelly Giles, Applied Sciences Librarian.

Entered by Essa Paterson, ISNW, March 11, 2021.


Information provided by Kelly Giles, Applied Sciences Librarian.

Entered by Essa Paterson, ISNW, March 11, 2021.

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