| Overall Rating | Gold |
|---|---|
| Overall Score | 65.91 |
| Liaison | Elizabeth MacKenzie |
| Submission Date | June 25, 2024 |
University of Iowa
AC-11: Open Access to Research
| Status | Score | Responsible Party |
|---|---|---|
|
1.33 / 2.00 |
Brinda
Shetty Program Manager Office of Sustainability and the Environment |
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?:
Website URL where the open access repository is available:
A brief description of the open access repository:
Iowa Research Online (ISSN 2476-1680 (online)) preserves and provides access to the research and creative scholarship created by the University of Iowa's faculty, students, and staff. The research papers, theses, dissertations, books, conference presentations, journals, data and multimedia here represent Iowa's rich intellectual and cultural community.
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?:
A copy of the institution's open access policy:
The institution's open access policy:
Some departments have policies: https://www.lib.uiowa.edu/collections/oa-statement/
Does the policy cover the entire institution? :
Does the institution provide an open access article processing charge (APC) fund for employees?:
A brief description of the open access APC fund:
The institution discontinued its open access fund for individual authors in favor of entering into transformative agreements with publishers. More info: https://guides.lib.uiowa.edu/c.php?g=1220506&p=9051027 Research libraries are increasingly entering into transformative agreements (sometimes called read-and-publish or publish-and-read agreements) with academic publishers allow affiliated authors to publish open access without paying article processing charges (APCs). Under this model, libraries pay publishers for access to a journal’s full content, as well as the right to make their researchers’ work open access, under a single contract and fee. This allows authors to publish OA without paying APCs.
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?:
A brief description of the open access journal hosting services:
University of Iowa Libraries' Publications is supported by the University of Iowa Libraries. The Digital Scholarship & Publishing Studio provides primary support for editors or current journal and for all back content. The titles on this site are all freely available. However, the licensing on them varies. Each journal may have their own policies, and in most cases the authors can choose whether to license their content with a Creative Commons license. In general, readers are free to download the content. Any other use, including distributing non-commercially, must be approved by the copyright holder. https://pubs.lib.uiowa.edu/ https://www.lib.uiowa.edu/studio/
Estimated percentage of peer-reviewed scholarly works published annually by the institution’s employees that are deposited in a designated open access repository:
Website URL where information about the institution’s support for open access is available:
Additional documentation to support the submission:
Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
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