University of Manitoba
AC-11: Open Access to Research

MSpace is one of the University of Manitoba’s institutional repositories. Its purpose is to collect, store, preserve, and provide access to digital versions of the scholarly works of UM faculty and student body. The collection boundaries of MSpace include faculty publications (preprint, open deposit manuscripts, technical reports, working papers); theses; conference proceedings; visual an audio works. The libraries work with University units to build communities and populate collections in support of funder and related mandates of open access deposit. Deposit is subject to copyright compliance, distribution license and other license restrictions that may be imposed on the work. There are two deposit options for MSpace: Thesis and Dissertations and Research Publications. MSpace was upgraded in 2022 to meet industry standards.

UM Libraries have been actively engaged in Open Access since 2009 through a commitment to the principles of Open Access, as outlined in the IFLA Statement on Open Access to Scholarly Literature and Research Documentation. Open Access benefits both researchers and learners by providing equal access to research information and facilitating scholarly communication. The libraries include Open Access materials in their collections and provide support for members of the University of Manitoba community who want to publish in Open Access formats.

The University of Manitoba Libraries, Department of Research Services & Digital Strategies, it currently working on updating its Open Access to Research Policy. It should be complete before the end of 2022.

The University of Manitoba Libraries provide researchers full financial support and/or discounts for the following publishers such as:

- American Chemical Society: $250 USD
- BioMed Central / Chemistry Central / SpringerOpen: variable discount and/or fee waiver
- Cambridge University Press: 20% discount
- Canadian Science Publishing Open Article: 50% discount automatically applied
- Dovepress: variable discount
- Hindawi: variable discount
- Multidiscplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI) IOAP: 10% discount automatically applied
- PeerJ: discount possible
- PLOS: waiver available for following journals – PLOS Biology & PLOS Medicine
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences: 25% discount automatically applied
- SCOAP3 including: variable discount by title: Advances in High Energy Physics - 32%, Chinese Physics C – 13%, Journal of High Energy Physics – 100%, Nuclear Physics B – 100%
- SAGE: 40% discount for open journal via Sage Open Access Portal (SOAP) automatically applied. More information about discount via CRKN agreement, including SAGE Choice, can be found here.
- Science Advances: $450 USD discount
- SpringerOpen: 15% discount automatically applied
- Taylor & Francis (T&F) Open Select journals: 25% discount automatically applied. Select University of Manitoba as payer – see https://www.tandfonline.com/openaccess/members/146229

Open Journal System (OJS) instance: https://ojs.lib.umanitoba.ca/

UM Dataverse is part of the Dataverse Project conceived by Harvard University. It is an open-source repository to assist researchers in the creation, management and dissemination of their research data. UM Dataverse allows for the creations of multiple collaborative environments containing datasets, metadata and digital objects. UM Dataverse provides formal scholarly data citations and can help with data requirements from publishers and funders. Researchers maintain full control of the data and can set restrictions on access in accordance with Research Ethics Board requirements or make data fully open and available if no restrictions are needed.

Research Data Storage Finder is an online tool that researchers can use to determine the appropriate repository for their research data.
https://umanitoba.ca/libraries/finder