University of Colorado Boulder
AC-11: Open Access to Research

CU Scholar is an open access institutional repository supporting the research and teaching mission of the University of Colorado Boulder. It is intended to serve as a platform for preserving and providing public access to the research activities of members of the CU Boulder community. CU Scholar is maintained by the University Libraries.

https://www.colorado.edu/policies/campus-open-access-policy

The University Libraries support the goal of making CU Boulder research findings immediately and freely available worldwide via publication in open access journals. The Open Access Fund is intended to support that goal by providing a means for authors without access to funds from other sources to pay for reasonable article processing or publishing fees charged by full open access publishers. Current CU Boulder faculty, staff and students may request funding up to $2,000 per fiscal year (July 1 to June 30) to pay for article-processing or publishing fees for full open access journals.

Any individual faculty, staff, student, or unit associated with the University of Colorado Boulder (CU Boulder) may apply to publish with the University Libraries. This includes, but is not limited to, journals or other similar types of publications (e.g., conference proceedings) formally sponsored and/or run by CU Boulder faculty, staff, students, or units as well as publications with which individual CU Boulder faculty, staff, or students have a formal relationship (e.g., serve on the editorial board) at the time of application. All content published by CU Boulder Libraries must be openly available to view and read, at a minimum. Further reuse rights (e.g., via Creative Commons licenses) are encouraged. All journals are hosted on the Open Journal Systems platform.

Open Journal Systems (OJS) is a third-party, open-source journal hosting software: https://pkp.sfu.ca/ojs/. All journals hosted by CU Boulder are open access and viewable at https://journals.colorado.edu/, with policies and criteria provided here: https://www.colorado.edu/libraries/about/policies/journal-hosting-policies. Permissions and hosting support are provided by faculty and staff in the CU Boulder Libraries and Center for Research Data and Digital Scholarship. All editorial and journal workflows are managed by editors and support staff specific to each journal.