Overall Rating Silver
Overall Score 61.55
Liaison Melissa Cadwell
Submission Date Jan. 7, 2022

STARS v2.2

Syracuse University
AC-11: Open Access to Research

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 2.00 / 2.00 Melissa Cadwell
Sustainability Coordinator
Energy Systems & Sustainability Management
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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://researchguides.library.syr.edu/oa

A brief description of the open access repository:
The Syracuse University Libraries seeks to support Open Access by assisting faculty, students and staff understand the processes and benefits of how their scholarly work can be published and made freely available to all those who need them. It also instructs on how materials can be created and integrated into curricula through the Open Publishing services.

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:
A policy was drafted by the Senate Ad Hoc Committee on Open Access and was endorsed by the Senate and has moved on to the Provost’s office for further action. The policy is not in effect yet.

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:
Via departments they have paid APC fees on behalf of their authors, and some are covered by grants. SU libraries have a few agreements in place with certain publishers to allow SU authors a discount on APCs & recently SU Libraries signed a “Read & Publish” agreement with the American Chemical Society, and we have similar agreements in the works with other publishers.
https://researchguides.library.syr.edu/oa/affiliations https://news.syr.edu/blog/2021/04/30/libraries-and-american-chemical-society-sign-innovative-read-and-publish-open-access-agreement/
https://www.acs.org/content/acs/en/pressroom/newsreleases/2021/april/acs-and-syracuse-university-sign-transformative-read-and-publish-agreement.html

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:
The Syracuse University Libraries seeks to support Open Access by assisting faculty, students and staff understand the processes and benefits of how their scholarly work can be published and made freely available to all those who need them. It also instructs on how materials can be created and integrated into curricula through the Open Publishing services.

Since its launch in 2010, SURFACE has grown to include thousands of items ranging from scholarly articles, books, journals, dissertations and theses, conference proceedings, videos, and more. It serves to represent the strength and diversity of work being done by members of the Syracuse University community and to share that work with communities all over the world.

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:
http://researchguides.library.syr.edu/oa

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