Overall Rating Gold
Overall Score 65.69
Liaison Alan Turnquist
Submission Date July 24, 2023

STARS v2.2

Michigan Technological University
AC-11: Open Access to Research

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 0.67 / 2.00 Alan Turnquist
Director of Sustainability and Resilience
Office of the President
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Open access repository

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:
https://digitalcommons.mtu.edu

A brief description of the open access repository:
Digital Commons @ Michigan Tech is a digital repository that highlights the research, scholarship, campus publications and other creative works by members of the Michigan Tech community. The repository provides full-text, open access to works as appropriate under existing copyright policies and serves as a publishing platform for original content.

737 works that were published open access by Michigan Tech authors in the last 5 years have been made available full-text through Digital Commons @ Michigan Tech, the University’s institutional repository.

Open access policy

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? :
No

APC fund

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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Open access journal hosting

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?:
No

A brief description of the open access journal hosting services:
Peer-reviewed, open access journals could be published and hosted in Digital Commons @ Michigan Tech. However, while this platform does have a dedicated staff member to assist in providing some publishing support at no cost, it provides cloud storage, as opposed to local server storage.

Optional Fields 

Estimated percentage of peer-reviewed scholarly works published annually by the institution’s employees that are deposited in a designated open access repository:
16.80

Website URL where information about the institution’s support for open access is available:
https://libguides.lib.mtu.edu/oer

Additional documentation to support the submission:
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Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
Digital Commons @ Michigan Tech has a collection highlighting open access publications that can be viewed here: https://digitalcommons.mtu.edu/michigantech-p-oa

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