University of Arizona
AC-11: Open Access to Research

The University of Arizona Campus Repository shares, archives, and preserves work from faculty, staff, students and affiliated staff. The Campus Repository is managed and maintained by the University of Arizona Libraries. It currently contains over 100,000 articles, chapters, dissertations, and other scholarly works from UA community members. ReDATA is a new service jointly provided by the UA Libraries and the Office of Research, Innovation, and Impact. It is a public archive of research data produced at the University of Arizona and provides similar services to the UA Campus Repository. It offers Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) for each dataset.

The Faculty of the University of Arizona is committed to disseminating its research and scholarship as widely as possible. As part of a public, land grant university, the Faculty is dedicated to making its scholarship available to the people of Arizona and the world to maximize its impact. Furthermore, the Faculty recognizes the benefits that accrue to themselves as individual scholars and the scholarly enterprise from such wide dissemination, including greater recognition, more thorough consideration and critique, and a general increase in the exchange and creation of knowledge. In keeping with these considerations, and for the primary purpose of making our scholarly articles widely and freely accessible, the Faculty adopts the following policy:

Each faculty member grants the University of Arizona permission to make their articles freely available in an Open Access repository. Such permission and the associated deposit of articles in a repository are consistent with the existing University of Arizona Intellectual Property Policy. This provision does not transfer copyright ownership of faculty articles, which remains with Faculty authors under the existing University of Arizona Intellectual Property Policy.

The policy applies to all scholarly articles authored or co-authored while the person is a member of the University of Arizona Faculty except for articles published before the adoption of this policy. Upon request by a faculty member, the University of Arizona will waive the deposit requirement for a particular article by that faculty member or delay access to the article for a specified period of time unless the waiver or delay is prohibited by applicable law, regulation, grant, or contract associated with the creation of the article in question.

To assist the University of Arizona in archiving and disseminating scholarly articles, the Faculty commit to helping the University obtain copies of its articles. Specifically, each Faculty member who does not obtain a waiver to deposit in the university’s Open Access repository will provide an electronic copy of the final accepted (post-peer review) manuscripts of his or her articles to the University of Arizona, by the date of publication, for inclusion in an Open Access repository. When appropriate, a Faculty member may instead notify the University of Arizona if the article will be freely available as an Open Access publication. Faculty members who have waived the deposit requirement may nonetheless choose to submit a copy with the University of Arizona for preservation purposes.

This policy does not in any way prescribe or limit the venue of publication for faculty members, who retain the right to publish articles in the journals or other venues of their choice. This policy neither requires nor prohibits the payment of fees or publication costs by authors.

The University Libraries, in consultation with Faculty Senate leadership and the Office of the Provost, will be responsible for implementing this policy, resolving disputes concerning its interpretation and application, and recommending any changes to the policy. Changes to the text of the policy will require approval by the Faculty Senate. The University Libraries will provide a report to Faculty Senate on the impact of the policy within three years.

The Faculty Senate calls upon university units to develop and monitor mechanisms that would render implementation and compliance with the policy as convenient as possible for the Faculty.

The University of Arizona Library is committed to supporting open access to both scholarship globally and to the published work of the UA campus community. We do this through memberships, support of OA initiatives and projects, pre-arranged discounts to Article Processing Charges (APCs), and our support of the UA Open Access Policy.

Link: https://lib.arizona.edu/research/open-access. 

We provide support for 26 open access journals using the Janeway hosting platform. We provide staffing for the technical infrastructure and consulting on the process of starting up an open access journal. See https://new.library.arizona.edu/research/journal-publishing. 

In regards to the percentage of peer-reviewed scholarly work published annually/deposited in repository: This is a challenging question in that there are many repositories where employees could be depositing material; they could also publish content in an open access repository. For articles (using the Dimensions database), we estimate approximately 16,260 total published articles; of these, about 61% are open access (whether through a repository or a journal). Approximately 15% are in the UA Libraries’ Campus Repository. These numbers are inexact, however. Data was sourced from the following: University Libraries - https://lib.arizona.edu/.