Overall Rating	Gold
Overall Score	72.78
Liaison	Troy Goodnough
Submission Date	Feb. 10, 2022

STARS v2.2

University of Minnesota, Morris
AC-11: Open Access to Research

Status	Score	Responsible Party
	2.00 / 2.00	Troy Goodnough Sustainability Director Office of 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:

http://digitalcommons.morris.umn.edu/

A brief description of the open access repository:

The University of Minnesota Morris Digital Well makes the intellectual, scholarly and creative works of the members of the UMN Morris community available to scholars, researchers, and the general public across the globe.

The repository also provides access to campus governance documents, relevant administrative documents, conferences and other collections. The UMN Morris Digital Well is administered by Rodney A. Briggs Library and serves as the permanent digital archive for these materials.

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:

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The institution's open access policy:

https://policy.umn.edu/research/scholarlyarticles

The policy only refers to the UMN Twin Cities repository, but Morris is covered by this as well. The link to our repository is included.

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:

https://www.lib.umn.edu/services/open-access/investment

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:

The University of Minnesota Morris Digital Well offers open access journals, including Scholarly Horizons: the University of Minnesota Morris Undergraduate Journal and New Research: Yearbook for the Society of Medieval Germanic Studies on our hosted bepress Digital Commons site (the Digital Well). The coordinator of the institutional repository (Naomi Skulan) provides assistance and support for publishing journals. The Digital Well also hosts open access journals created by other entities (including The Journal of The Minnesota Academy of Sciences). The journals hosted on the Digital Well can be found here: https://digitalcommons.morris.umn.edu/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:

https://www.lib.umn.edu/services/open-access

Additional documentation to support the submission:

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