| Overall Rating | Gold - expired |
|---|---|
| Overall Score | 65.19 |
| Liaison | Justin Mog |
| Submission Date | Feb. 13, 2016 |
| Executive Letter | Download |
University of Louisville
AC-11: Access to Research
| Status | Score | Responsible Party |
|---|---|---|
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2.00 / 2.00 |
Russell
Barnett Director Kentucky Institute for the Environment & Sustainable Development |
Total number of institutional divisions (e.g. schools, colleges, departments) that produce research:
Number of divisions covered by a policy assuring open access to research:
A brief description of the open access policy, including the date adopted and repository(ies) used:
The University of Louisville’s open access collection policy was adopted in 2015 along with the creation of UofL’s Institutional Repository, ThinkIR - an open access digital archive of scholarly work created by the UofL community. This collection is part of the Digital Commons Network™ and provides free, global access to its contents. It is picked up by many web search engines, including Google Scholar. ThinkIR preserves and disseminates works of enduring merit for future generations of scholars making them available to a worldwide audience of scholars and researchers.
ThinkIR is organized by colleges/schools and departments of the University of Louisville. ThinkIR showcases worldwide the research and creative work of faculty, staff, and students at the University of Louisville. Examples of these types of scholarly effort include:
• journal articles
• conference posters/presentations/proceedings
• technical reports/working papers
• Graduate theses, dissertations, and capstones and undergraduate honor theses
Faculty may deposit works as defined by their unit’s Personnel Document. Staff may deposit these types of material if created in the course of their work assignment. Graduate theses, dissertations, and capstones and undergraduate honor theses are deposited by students in accordance with their respective program requirements. Please see the Guidelines for the Preparation and Processing of Theses and Dissertations (School of Interdisciplinary & Graduate Studies) and the Procedures and Standards for Master of Engineering Theses (J. B. Speed School of Engineering) for additional information.
Date Revised: May 6, 2016
A copy of the open access policy:
The open access policy:
Open Access Collection Policy:
The University of Louisville’s Institutional Repository, ThinkIR, welcomes scholarly work created by faculty, staff, and students of the University of Louisville (UofL). ThinkIR, is an open access digital archive of scholarly work created by the UofL community. This collection is part of the Digital Commons Network™ and provides free, global access to its contents.
Copyright & Intellectual Property:
Faculty, staff and student authors contributing scholarship to ThinkIR retain copyright in their submitted works, permitting them to freely reuse the content elsewhere as detailed more specifically in the required Nonexclusive License Agreement. The license agreement grants the University of Louisville the non-exclusive right to reproduce and distribute the submission electronically to support sharing the scholarship worldwide. Contributing authors must confirm that their submissions reflect their original work and that they hold sufficient rights and permissions to grant the nonexclusive license. Typically, that outcome requires that faculty members either hold direct copyright in the scholarship through their authorship or retain sufficient rights under a publication agreement to grant those nonexclusive rights to UofL. Contributing authors also hold sole responsibility for complying with copyright and all other legal requirements governing the creation and sharing of their scholarship, including any collaborations with co-authors.
Withdrawal Policy:
In general, once submissions have been approved and posted in ThinkIR, they cannot be removed as they constitute a permanent record of the scholarly output of the University of Louisville community.
However, the University Libraries acknowledge that there may be instances when it may be necessary to remove items from the repository. We reserve the right to withdraw items, and will strive to provide post-notification of that withdrawal if possible or permissible.
Date Revised: May 6, 2016
The website URL where the open access repository is available:
Date Revised: May 6, 2016
A brief description of how the institution’s library(ies) support open access to research:
The University Libraries have multiple databases including: ABI/Inform, CINAHL, Criminal Justice Abstracts, EBSCO Academic, EDLINE (OVID), Naxos Music Library, ProQuest Direct, PsycINFO, PubMed, Social Services Abstracts, Social Work Abstracts Plus, Sociological Collections, UpToDate, Web is Science, and WorldCat to name some of the major ones. The Library also participated in the InterLibrary Loan Program where faculty, staff and students may procure research that is not located at the university.
The website URL where information about open access to the institution's research is available:
Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
The total number of institutional divisions (e.g. schools, colleges, departments) that produce research at UofL is as follows:
12 colleges and 59 departments
The total number of institutional divisions (e.g. schools, colleges, departments) that produce research at UofL is as follows:
12 colleges and 59 departments
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