Rollins College
AC-8: Responsible Research and Innovation
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8.1 Published ethical code of conduct for research
Online location of the institution’s ethical code of conduct for research:
Copy of the institution’s ethical code of conduct for research:
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8.2 Recognition of integrated, community-based, and extra-academic research
Description or text of the promotion/tenure guidelines or policies that explicitly recognize integrated research:
The Bylaws for the College of Liberal Arts, our main academic unit, includes the following in the criteria for faculty evaluation of scholarship: “We recognize the value not only of scholarship in a particular academic discipline, but also of inter-disciplinary scholarship and pedagogical research.” The Bylaws for the Crummer School of Business do not mention interdisciplinary or other integrated research.
Do the promotion/tenure guidelines or policies that recognize integrated research cover all of the institution’s research-producing academic divisions?:
Does the institution have published promotion or tenure guidelines or policies that give explicit positive recognition to community-based research?:
Description or text of the promotion/tenure guidelines or policies that explicitly recognize community-based research:
Each department maintains a list of criteria for faculty tenure and promotion, and in several departments, there is explicit positive recognition of community based research.
Do the promotion/tenure guidelines or policies that recognize community-based research cover all of the institution’s research-producing academic divisions?:
Does the institution have published promotion or tenure guidelines or policies that give explicit positive recognition to research impact or reach outside of academic journals?:
Description or text of the promotion/tenure guidelines or policies that explicitly recognize research impact or reach outside of academic journals:
Each department maintains a list of criteria for faculty tenure and promotion, and in several departments, there is explicit positive recognition of research presented or published outside of academic journals.
Do the promotion/tenure guidelines or policies that recognize research impact or reach outside of academic journals cover all of the institution’s research-producing academic divisions?:
If Yes to any of the above, provide at least one form of evidence (website URL or document). If reporting on multiple guidelines or policies, provide the best available example and/or a website that provides an overview of promotion/tenure for academic employees.
Copy of the institution’s promotion/tenure guidelines or policies:
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8.3 Inter-campus collaboration for responsible research and innovation
Description of the institution’s inter-campus collaborations for responsible research and innovation:
Rollins College is an AshokaU Changemaker Campus. Changemaker campuses commit to embedding changemaking across the institution and are encouraged to collaborate with other changemaker campuses. One example of a recent inter-campus research collaboration with other AshokaU Changemaker campuses is a National Science Foundation Research Collaboration Network Grant focused on training undergraduate biology students through community engaged, urban agriculture projects.
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8.4 Support for open access publishing
Narrative and/or website URL providing an overview of the open access repository:
Does the institution have one or more published policies that require its employees to publish scholarly works open access or archive final post-peer reviewed versions of scholarly works in an open access repository?:
Do the open access policies cover all of the institution’s research-producing academic divisions?:
Text or online location of the institution’s open access policies:
Copy of the institution’s open access policies:
Does the institution provide an open access article processing charge (APC) fund for employees?:
Narrative and/or website URL providing an overview of the open access APC fund:
Does the institution negotiate or participate in transformative open access agreements that are consistent with ESAC guidelines?:
Narrative and/or website URL providing an overview of the institution’s transformative open access agreements with publishers:
We have an agreement with the American Chemical Society (ACS). ACS Open Science - Open Access News, Tools and More
Here is more information about this agreement: ACS-Sponsored Read and Publish for PUIs - ACS Open Science - Open Access News, Tools and More
We have an open access publishing agreement with Cambridge University Press. Here is a link to an overview of the agreement. OA agreement - Rollins College, US
· We also have an open access agreement with Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). Here is brief overview of the agreement:
o ACM allows all Affiliated Corresponding Authors to publish accepted Eligible Articles open access with no fees, starting from the article's initial publication in the ACM Digital Library, and this is permanent.
o Eligible Articles qualify for open access if published on or after the Agreement Effective Date or accepted before the Agreement's Termination Date.
o Authors can choose between two rights assignment options:
o ACM License: Co-authors retain copyright, and ACM gets an exclusive license to publish.
o ACM Permission Release: ACM gets a non-exclusive license, and authors can share the article via Creative Commons (default CC-BY).
o Authors, including co-authors, retain copyright to their articles.
o ACM will deposit copies of Eligible Articles in participating institutions' open repositories for open access. If the article is open access, it will be the final published version; if subscription-based, it will be the final accepted manuscript.
Here is their website link: ACM OPEN (ACM’s Transformative Model for Open Access Publication) Rollins is listed on Institutions Currently Participating in ACM OPEN link.
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