Overall Rating	Gold - expired
Overall Score	67.87
Liaison	Nurit Katz
Submission Date	March 6, 2020

STARS v2.2

University of California, Los Angeles
AC-11: Open Access to Research

Status	Score	Responsible Party
	2.00 / 2.00	Nurit Katz Chief Sustainability Officer 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:

https://escholarship.org/

A brief description of the open access repository:

eScholarship serves as the institutional repository for the ten University of California campuses and affiliated research centers.

eScholarship Repository content includes postprints (previously published articles), as well as working papers, electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs), student capstone projects, and seminar/conference proceedings.

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:

OpenAccess_adopted_072413.pdf

The institution's open access policy:

Two policies that work in tandem - one that covers academics (Academic Senate of the University of California adopted an Open Access Policy on July 24, 2013) and one that covers all members of the UC Community (UC Presidential Open Access Policy adopted on October 23, 2015).

All policies can be reviewed via: https://osc.universityofcalifornia.edu/for-authors/open-access-policy/

Does the policy cover the entire institution? :

Yes

APC fund

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

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?:

Yes

A brief description of the open access journal hosting services:

escholarship - platform for open access journals - https://escholarship.org/.
Authors still need to get outside copy editing and formatting, however staff are available to assist with the technical side of loading the articles/journals.

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://www.library.ucla.edu/support/copyright-data-publishing

Additional documentation to support the submission:

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Data source(s) and notes about the submission:

Up until now, faculty - under 50% have participated. Total submission groups, estimated 15-20% are compliant. UCLA is working on improving that.

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