| Overall Rating | Gold - expired |
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| Overall Score | 70.59 |
| Liaison | Daryl Pierson |
| Submission Date | June 27, 2017 |
| Executive Letter | Download |
Portland State University
AC-11: Open Access to Research
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Amanda
Wolf Program + Assessment Coordinator Campus Sustainability Office |
How many of the institution’s research-producing divisions are covered by a published open access policy that ensures that versions of future scholarly articles by faculty and staff are deposited in a designated open access repository? (All, Some or None):
Which of the following best describes the open access policy? (Mandatory or Voluntary):
Does the institution provide financial incentives to support faculty members with article processing and other open access publication charges?:
A brief description of the open access policy, including the date adopted, any incentives or supports provided, and the repository(ies) used:
PSU’s Institutional Repository, PDXScholar, contains over 13,800 items created by PSU faculty, students, and staff, including but not limited to journal articles, technical reports, conference papers, research data, theses and dissertations, and books.
The purpose of PDXScholar is to provide open access to PSU scholarship to researchers throughout the world via the Internet. By default, materials deposited into the repository are open access, which means anyone on the web can access them. In addition, repository materials are protected by copyright, with all rights reserved by the copyright holder. As an alternative to reserving all rights, authors are encouraged to consider licensing their works under a Creative Commons License, under which they can preserve those rights that are most important to them (e.g., proper attribution,) and at the same time explicitly grant to readers certain other rights chosen by the author to be used at the reader's discretion (e.g., copy, distribute, display, or perform the work.) For additional information, see PDXScholar copyright/authors rights.
In October 2016, the Library announced an Open Access Article Processing Charge $10,000 pilot fund. This fund supports open access scholarship by PSU authors by paying article processing charges publication in open access journals.
A copy of the institution's open access policy:
The institution's open access policy:
Introduction
PDXScholar, a service of Portland State University Library, is a digital repository and publication platform designed to collect, preserve, and make accessible the scholarly output of Portland State faculty, students, staff, and affiliates.
PDXScholar is also a platform for sharing primary materials curated by Portland State University Special Collections and University Archives.
This document outlines policies and guidelines regarding the submission of content to PDXScholar, including submission criteria, author and user rights, and procedures for removing posted content.
Mission
PDXScholar provides free open access to Portland State University scholarship. PDXScholar brings together the varied and diverse Portland State University scholarly output in one digital space, enabling the University to effectively promote the ideas produced by Portland State University scholars for the benefit of prospective students, current students, prospective faculty, current faculty, alumni, and others.
The Collection
Currently, PDXScholar includes research and scholarship produced by faculty, schools, departments, institutes, center, student groups and programs at Portland State University. In addition, PDXScholar recognizes academic excellence by highlighting the work of graduate and undergraduate students at the University.
Collection development priorities include:
original student research
faculty scholarship, including gray literature (unpublished or in-process manuscripts), previously-published articles from scholarly journals, chapters in books, conference papers and select presentations
Portland State University institutional documents, such as conference proceedings, programs and other ephemera
high-quality, peer-reviewed journals edited by Portland State University faculty and students
Author/Creator Rights
Authors who submit their content to PDXScholar retain the copyright to their work, unless they have explicitly signed it away in a copyright transfer agreement with a third party. The Library asks authors to grant a non-exclusive distribution license (license can be found as appendix), which allows the Library to distribute the work through the repository.
When submitting material to PDXScholar content owners will have the option to set conditions on the re-use of their materials by affixing a permission and copyright license statement, such as a Creative Commons License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/), to their work.
A user who shares copyrighted materials with other members of the Portland State University community or the general public affirms that s/he either owns the copyright to the published object or has obtained permission from the copyright owner to publish the material.
Editorial
The Library reserves the right to accept or reject any content, in part or in whole, posted to PDXScholar.
The website URL where the open access repository is available:
Estimated percentage of scholarly articles published annually by the institution’s faculty and staff that are deposited in a designated open access repository (0-100):
A brief description of how the institution’s library(ies) support open access to research:
The library provides information to faculty and students on open access on your website (http://library.pdx.edu/services/academic-publishing/open-access-public-access/), we offer the Article Processing fund, and through PDXScholar services.
The website URL where information about the programs or initiatives is available:
Additional documentation to support the submission:
Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
The information presented here is self-reported. While AASHE staff review portions of all STARS reports and institutions are welcome to seek additional forms of review, the data in STARS reports are not verified by AASHE. If you believe any of this information is erroneous or inconsistent with credit criteria, please review the process for inquiring about the information reported by an institution or simply email your inquiry to stars@aashe.org.