| Overall Rating | Gold |
|---|---|
| Overall Score | 75.15 |
| Liaison | Laura Young |
| Submission Date | March 3, 2022 |
Michigan State University
AC-11: Open Access to Research
| Status | Score | Responsible Party |
|---|---|---|
|
1.33 / 2.00 |
Laura
Young Sustainability Program Coordinator Administration-EVP-Office of Sustainability |
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?:
Website URL where the open access repository is available:
A brief description of the open access repository:
MSU Commons, launched in 2020, is the first institutional node on the Commons network. “The Commons overall enables scholars and practitioners in any field to create a professional profile, discuss common interests, develop new publications, and share their work.” MSU Commons is a joint project of the MESH Research team in the College of Arts & Letters and MSU Libraries.
The repository integrated into the Commons, CORE, serves as the institutional repository for MSU, preserving and making accessible a wide range of work being done by the MSU community. CORE is a repository for sharing, discovering, retrieving, and archiving digital work, providing Commons members with a permanent, open access storage facility for their scholarly output, facilitating maximum discoverability and encouraging peer feedback."" This is from the url and speaks directly to AASHE definition.
As part of this effort, MSU assumed responsibility for the hosting and development of Humanities Commons, an online network for people working in the humanities. The site was launched by the Modern Language Association (MLA) in December 2016 and has become a key piece of online scholarly infrastructure with nearly 25,000 users. https://cal.msu.edu/news/humanities-commons-is-moving-to-michigan-state-university/
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?:
A copy of the institution's open access policy:
The institution's open access policy:
n/a
Does the policy cover the entire institution? :
Does the institution provide an open access article processing charge (APC) fund for employees?:
A brief description of the open access APC fund:
MSU provides open access APC funding through several “read and publish” agreements. The list of publishers for which APCs are covered for MSU employees is growing continually. For example, in 2020, MSU Libraries signed a three-year transformative read-and-publish agreement with the De Gruyter publishing house to provide default open access publishing for all articles by MSU authors in De Gruyter journals. https://msutoday.msu.edu/news/2020/new-agreement-to-provide-open-access-publishing-for-msu-authors In addition, MSU maintains publishing discounts for multiple journals. For more details: https://lib.msu.edu/about/collections/scholcomm/support/
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?:
A brief description of the open access journal hosting services:
n/a
Estimated percentage of peer-reviewed scholarly works published annually by the institution’s employees that are deposited in a designated open access repository:
Website URL where information about the institution’s support for open access is available:
Additional documentation to support the submission:
Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
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