Overall Rating	Silver
Overall Score	60.35
Liaison	Cody Friend
Submission Date	May 6, 2024

STARS v2.2

University of Nebraska at Omaha
AC-11: Open Access to Research

Status	Score	Responsible Party
	1.33 / 2.00	A.T. Miller Chief Diversity Officer Office of Diversity, Equity, Access, and Inclusion

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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.unomaha.edu/

A brief description of the open access repository:

DigitalCommons@UNO is an institutional repository (IR) with the goal of collecting and making visible the intellectual output of our university. The IR creates an open access home for these materials with static webpages which can be found directly through this IR site or via an internet search. This repository demonstrates the values of the University of Nebraska at Omaha to be a student-focused metropolitan university recognized not only for its academic excellence but for its outstanding community engagement.

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?:

A copy of the institution's open access policy:

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The institution's open access policy:

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Does the policy cover the entire institution? :

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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:

UNO previously had an Open Access Fund, but due to budget constraints, the fund no longer exists.

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:

UNO hosts several open access journals via UNO's Digital Commons (https://digitalcommons.unomaha.edu/peer_review_list.html):
• International Dialogue (https://digitalcommons.unomaha.edu/id-journal/)
• Journal of Curriculum, Teaching, Learning and Leadership in Education (https://digitalcommons.unomaha.edu/ctlle/)
• Journal of Religion & Film (https://digitalcommons.unomaha.edu/jrf/)
• Space and Defense (https://digitalcommons.unomaha.edu/spaceanddefense/)

UNO's Digital Commons, as are those at UNL, UNMC, and UNK, are funded by the University of Nebraska Consortium of Libraries. The funding purchases the bepress hosting platform (https://bepress.com/), and the libraries provide staff to assist with technical support. The editors and editorial staff of the journals are responsible for managing publication workflows (article submissions, peer review, editing, etc.).

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:

http://digitalcommons.unomaha.edu/about.html

Additional documentation to support the submission:

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Data source(s) and notes about the submission:

http://libguides.unomaha.edu/openaccess
http://libguides.unomaha.edu/openaccess/oafund
https://libguides.unomaha.edu/oer

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