Overall Rating Gold
Overall Score 65.39
Liaison Patrice Langevin
Submission Date March 3, 2023

STARS v2.2

Pitzer College
AC-11: Open Access to Research

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 1.33 / 2.00 Susan Phillips
Director
Robert Redford Conservancy
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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:
A brief description of the open access repository:
Scholarship@Claremont is an open access scholarship repository with a set of services to capture, store, index, and provide access to scholarship produced by the Claremont Colleges academic community. The repository offers worldwide access to the scholarly output from Pomona College, Claremont Graduate University, Scripps College, Claremont McKenna College, Harvey Mudd College, Pitzer College, Keck Graduate Institute, and the Claremont Colleges Library. The intention is to bring together the Claremont Colleges’ scholarship into one location to maximize visibility, influence, and benefit for the individual as well as the school.

The repository intends to:

Provide persistent and centralized access to research and scholarship by the Claremont Colleges academic community.
Promote research and collaboration within the scholarly community.
Preserve the history, growth, and development of the Claremont Colleges.
Members of the Claremont academic community are invited to contribute completed scholarship for long-term preservation and worldwide electronic accessibility through the Scholarship@Claremont.

Coordinated by the Claremont Colleges Library, Scholarship@Claremont provides for the dissemination of a full range of scholarship, including artwork, conference proceedings, monographs, peer-reviewed journals, post prints, publicly funded research, reports, teaching and learning resources, theses and dissertations, and working papers.

The content of the repository is discoverable by Google, Google Scholar, and other search engines, which makes it easy to share and collaborate with anyone connected to the Internet. The content is available to be used responsibly under fair use for personal and educational purposes or with the permission of the authors or copyright holders.

To contribute your research and scholarship to Scholarship@Claremont, please download and sign the Copyright Permission Form and send the signed copy along with your list of publications in an email to scholarship@cuc.claremont.edu

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:
Claremont Colleges Library

The Library OA Position

To disseminate our (librarians') scholarship as broadly as possible. We endeavor to make our scholarly work openly accessible in conformance with open access principles. Whenever possible, we make our scholarship available in digital format, online, and free of charge.

To grant the Claremont Colleges Library (CCL) a Creative Commons “Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States” license to each of our scholarly works to allow the CCL the right to archive and make publicly available the full text of our scholarly works via the Claremont Colleges's digital repository, Scholarship@Claremont.


To deposit the author’s final version of our scholarly work in the Scholarship@Claremont as soon as is possible, recognizing that some publishers may impose an embargo period.

To seek publishers whose policies allow us to make our scholarly works freely available online. When a publisher’s policies do not allow us to make our works freely available online, we resolve to engage in good faith negotiations with the publisher to allow deposit of pre- or post-print versions of our scholarly work in the digital repository.

To promote Open Access content and tools as resources and to assist scholars in making their research openly available.

Does the policy cover the entire institution? :
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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?:
Yes

A brief description of the open access journal hosting services:
https://scholarship.claremont.edu/journals.html

the service is listed on the site located above

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:
80

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:
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