Overall Rating Gold
Overall Score 67.19
Liaison Tarah Rowse
Submission Date May 30, 2021

STARS v2.2

Skidmore College
AC-11: Open Access to Research

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 1.33 / 2.00 Mark Youndt
Director of Sustainability for Academic Affairs
Management and Business
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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://libguides.skidmore.edu/scholarlycommunication/creative_matter

A brief description of the open access repository:
Based on Open Access principles, Skidmore’s institutional repository, Creative Matter, brings together creative and scholarly output under one umbrella with the goal of both preserving and providing global access to our creative thought. A service of the Lucy Scribner Library, the repository is an excellent vehicle for working papers, copies of published articles, collaborative research, senior theses and final projects. Search engine optimization within Creative Matter means that submissions are found easily via the web.

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:
Information regarding our institutional repository is at https://libguides.skidmore.edu/scholarlycommunication/creative_matter

Does the policy cover the entire institution? :
No

APC fund

Does the institution provide an open access article processing charge (APC) fund for employees?:
Yes

A brief description of the open access APC fund:
A publisher may offer the option to make your article Open Access for a fee, which can be as high as several thousand dollars. There are situations where this makes sense, but we encourage you to contact your subject librarian or library_support@skidmore.edu to discuss your author rights before committing. To request funds from the Scribner Library, please fill out our Open Access Grant Fund request form.

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:
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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:
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Website URL where information about the institution’s support for open access is available:
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Additional documentation to support the submission:
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