Overall Rating Gold
Overall Score 68.42
Liaison Austin Sutherland
Submission Date Feb. 18, 2025

STARS v2.2

University of Pennsylvania
AC-11: Open Access to Research

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 1.33 / 2.00
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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://repository.upenn.edu/

A brief description of the open access repository:

ScholarlyCommons is the University of Pennsylvania's open access institutional repository for gathering, indexing, storing, and making widely available the scholarly output of the Penn community. Reflecting the core values of inclusion, innovation, and impact in the Penn Compact 2022, ScholarlyCommons shares the exceptional works of Penn faculty, staff, and students with a local, national, and global audience. Access to ScholarlyCommons is free to all. ScholarlyCommons is a service of the University of Pennsylvania Libraries.


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:
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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:

Penn Libraries supports the creation, discovery, and preservation of open access journals in the digital publishing platform, Manifold, by Penn affiliates. Through this platform, the library aims to expand open access publishing options for open access journals not published by university presses, as well as those that leverage multimodal and interdisciplinary research, implement media-rich approaches, and bring diverse and traditionally underrepresented voices into dialogue by hosting open access journals. Any Penn-affiliated student, faculty member, or librarian, or any department or research center associated with University of Pennsylvania or its affiliates can propose an open access journal partnership with Penn Libraries. In addition, a number of journals have received subscription or membership support from the Penn Libraries, enabling Penn faculty to publish in them without a fee or at a reduced fee. 


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://guides.library.upenn.edu/Authors/open_access

Additional documentation to support the submission:
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Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
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