| Overall Rating | Silver - expired |
|---|---|
| Overall Score | 62.46 |
| Liaison | Morgan Hartman |
| Submission Date | Jan. 31, 2020 |
University of Nebraska - Lincoln
AC-11: Open Access to Research
| Status | Score | Responsible Party |
|---|---|---|
|
1.33 / 2.00 |
Elizabeth
Snyder Communications Specialist GA Office of Sustainability |
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:
The UNL institutional repository (IR) comprises services that result in the stewardship and global online dissemination of content created and selected by UNL authors and affiliates. With the aim of contributing to the broader world of scholarship and facilitating discovery, the repository reflects the intellectual life of the institution.
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:
The policy is strictly opt-in. Our collection development policy is available here: https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/librarycolldev/67/. It covers all of UNL.
List of Open Access Policy initiatives passed by faculty, staff, and students can be found at http://www.unl.edu/gsa/national.shtml
See below:
[Text of the UNL Faculty Senate resolution]
Resolution on Digital Commons Institutional Repository
The Research Council to the Faculty Senate:
Whereas — Many members of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln faculty from every college have taken advantage of services offered by the Libraries to create and populate a very successful institutional repository, the UNL Digital Commons, now containing more than 27,000 open-access items of faculty and student research, including articles, original monographs, and journals, as well as more than 11,000 dissertations, and
whereas — this repository is one of the largest academic institutional repositories in the United States, is accessed from more than 150 countries, and is indexed by Google and other major search engines, and
whereas — online open-access electronic dissemination of scholarship is an extremely effective way to enhance the visibility, recognition, and reach of faculty research,
be it resolved — that the participating faculty are to be congratulated for their support and use of the institutional repository and that all faculty are to be encouraged to take advantage of these services.
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:
No, it does not provide an APC fund for employees. However, on request, they give authors information about specific APCs, and we provide consultation about how to build this cost into grant proposals.
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:
Yes, we host several locally-published peer-reviewed journals that are available in the Digital Commons. Our staff are dedicated to the publishing of the journal content as well as other content. There is no charge to either authors or users for any of the services provided by us.
Just as we do for our institutional repository, we use the Digital Commons platform for our journals. We partner with faculty, staff, and students who provide the content editing functions for the journals, and we offer copy editing, production, hosting, and dissemination of the content. Bepress, the platform publisher for Digital Commons, also provides metrics of the use of the content.
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:
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