Overall Rating Platinum
Overall Score 85.88
Liaison Sam Lubow
Submission Date March 3, 2022

STARS v2.2

Stanford University
AC-11: Open Access to Research

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 1.33 / 2.00 Melissa Maigler
Sustainability Analytics Manager
Office of Sustainability
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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:
The Stanford Digital Repository supports management of scholarly information resources of enduring value to Stanford University. Faculty, students, and researchers use SDR services to promote and protect the products of their work. Scholars around the world use content in the SDR in their research. The benefits of this service distinguish the SDR from other content storage or management options on campus: deposited content is preserved in a robust, reliable, and secure environment for access by scholars today and for generations to come.

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?:
Yes

A copy of the institution's open access policy:
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The institution's open access policy:
OPEN ACCESS POLICY.
Each member of the Academic Council grants to Stanford University permission to make available their scholarly articles and to exercise the copyright in those articles. In legal terms, the permission granted by each Academic Council member is a nonexclusive, irrevocable, worldwide license to exercise any and all rights under copyright relating to each of their scholarly articles, in any medium, and to authorize others to do the same, provided that the articles are not sold for a profit[1]. The policy will apply to all scholarly articles written while the person is an Academic Council member except for any articles completed before the adoption of this policy and any articles for which the Faculty member entered into an incompatible licensing or assignment agreement before the adoption of this policy. The Provost or Provost’s designate in the Office of Scholarly Communications will waive application of the policy for a particular article upon written request by an Academic Council member explaining the need for such a waiver. To assist the University in distributing the articles, each Academic Council member will provide an electronic copy of the final version of the article at no charge under the terms of this license to the Stanford Digital Repository. The Stanford Digital Repository will provide interfaces and other facilities making as frictionless as possible deposit of articles. Stanford University shall make the article available to the public in the Stanford Digital Repository under an open license. [1] For clarity, this requirement supports Stanford authors in the publication of op-eds and similar public scholarship without requirements for granting of rights to the University.

The policy is also accessible here: https://library.stanford.edu/department/office-scholarly-communication

Does the policy cover the entire institution? :
Yes

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:
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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:
Additional documentation to support the submission:
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Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
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