Overall Rating Silver
Overall Score 47.15
Liaison Sarah Leola Hunt
Submission Date Feb. 26, 2024

STARS v2.2

University of North Carolina, Pembroke
AC-11: Open Access to Research

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 1.33 / 2.00 Patricia Cornette
Director
Office of Sponsored Research and Programs
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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:
https://libguides.uncp.edu/uncplibrary

A brief description of the open access repository:

Above is the URL for open access to UNCP's research and scholarly journals. 


 


BraveDocks is UNCP’s Institutional Repository. Its goal is to help you disseminate your work, increase your research impact, and promote accessibility in all fields of scholarship. It is our university’s link to NC DOCKS. NC DOCKS is a cooperative effort to make the scholarly output of the University of North Carolina System more available to the world. Current institutional participants include Appalachian State University, East Carolina University, North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics, UNC Charlotte, UNC Greensboro, UNC Pembroke, UNC Wilmington, and Western Carolina University. NC DOCKS includes many full text articles, audio recordings, dissertations, and other formats. All materials are indexed by Google and are freely available to scholars and researchers world-wide.


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?:
No

A copy of the institution's open access policy:
UNCP_Scholarship_-_Faculty_Services_-_LibGuides_at_University_of_North_Carolina_at_Pembroke.pdf

The institution's open access policy:
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Does the policy cover the entire institution? :
No

APC fund

Does the institution provide an open access article processing charge (APC) fund for employees?:
No

A brief description of the open access APC fund:
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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:

Mary Livermore Library provides access to some OER publishing opportunities and allows faculty to waive Open Access publication fees through affiliated journals. Wiley - "Corresponding authors affiliated with participating Carolina Consortium institutions may publish open access at no charge to the author. To qualify, articles must be published in a Wiley or Hindawi fully open access journal† (submitted on or after 1 January 2023) or published open access in a hybrid journal (accepted on or after 1 January 2023)." Cambridge Open Access – over 300 Cambridge journals support open access publications. Campus authors accepted for publications may opt in to OA Publications. Opting in will not be weighed in the publication process and can be retroactively applied to published work (any article published within the calendar year up through the following March). 


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:
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Additional documentation to support the submission:
Default_Report.pdf

Data source(s) and notes about the submission:

Attached is a STARS survey for publications of research and scholarly findings. 


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