| Overall Rating | Gold |
|---|---|
| Overall Score | 67.31 |
| Liaison | Rob Andrejewski |
| Submission Date | Dec. 23, 2024 |
University of Richmond
AC-11: Open Access to Research
| Status | Score | Responsible Party |
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1.33 / 2.00 |
Daniel
Hart Associate Director of Sustainability and Environmental Justice Office for Sustainability |
Open access repository
Website URL where the open access repository is available:
A brief description of the open access repository:
The University of Richmond's Scholarship Repository brings together and provides open access to the intellectual content of its faculty, students and many centers and programs. The repository includes a broad spectrum of materials and formats, including written scholarship by faculty and students. UR Scholarship Repository is an open-access compliant institutional repository, with content freely accessible to the world and searchable via Google Scholar and other search engines. All current and emeritus faculty and staff can deposit their work in this repository into their communities (their home departments) by contacting their respective library. Published and unpublished works of current and emeritus faculty and staff may be uploaded into the repository. Images, video and audio may be uploaded as well. All works in UR Scholarship Repository are publicly available; the only items that may not be available are those under temporary embargo by the publisher or the author. Material in copyright is only posted with the approval of the copyright owner or subject to the doctrine of fair use. It is our belief that all material posted on this site meets these criteria or is out of copyright, but please contact Crista LaPrade, Digital Asset Management & Preservation Administrator, if you believe an item or items do not meet these criteria and should be taken down. UR Scholarship Repository is organized and made accessible by the University Libraries and William Taylor Muse Law Library.
Any questions should be directed to Crista LaPrade, Digital Asset Management & Preservation Administrator, University Libraries at claprade@richmond.edu or Sam Cabo, Digital Resources Librarian, William Taylor Muse Law Library at scabo@richmond.edu.
Open access policy
A copy of the institution's open access policy:
The institution's open access policy:
This is decided on a departmental basis. While there is no institutional commitment, the repository is seen as an asset.
Does the policy cover the entire institution? :
APC fund
A brief description of the open access APC fund:
UR Faculty and Staff are eligible for discounted or free Open Access publishing (often known as "Article Publication Charges" or APCs) from the following publishers.
UR Libraries participates in most of these initiatives through VIVA, Virginia's Academic Library Consortium. The full list of VIVA Open Access Initiatives can be found here: https://vivalib.org/va/collections/openaccess.
Instructions for authors are included at each link, but you are also welcome to contact UR Librarians with any questions.
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American Chemical Society (ACS)UR has joined ACS's OA publishing initiative for primarily undergraduate institutions PUI). Corresponding authors can publish in ACS journals without cost. Authors that are collaborating with researchers from another organization should confirm that they will act as the submitting corresponding author to qualify for this program. [Author Resources]
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Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) (VIVA OA Agreement)Corresponding authors at UR will be able to publish articles in ACM journals, magazines, and proceedings as Open Access (OA) at no fee (the agreement does not include books or book chapters) from October 1, 2021 to December 31, 2024. [Author Resources]
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Cambridge University Press (VIVA OA Agreement)Corresponding authors at UR will also be able to publish journal articles open access at no cost from January 1, 2023 through December 31, 2025. This includes almost all of the CUP journals; around 12 are not allowing open access at this time. [Author Resources]
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Company of BiologistsUR Libraries has licensed a five-year journal Read & Publish package through 31 Dec. 2026. This includes the following journals: Development, Journal of Cell Science, Journal of Experimental Biology, and the fully Open Access journals: Disease Models & Mechanisms and Biology Open. [Author Resources]
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Institute of Physics (IOP) (VIVA OA Agreement)Corresponding authors at UR will be able to publish articles in IOP journals, not including the American Astronomical Society (AAS) journals, at no fee from January 1, 2023 to December 31, 2024. [Author Resources]
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International Water Association (IWA) (VIVA OA Agreement)VIVA has a three-year read and publish agreement with the International Water Association (IWA) that will allow corresponding authors at all VIVA institutions to publish open access articles in IWA journals and expand reading access for this content as well. Corresponding authors at VIVA institutions will be able to publish journal articles open access at no cost from January 1, 2023 through December 31, 2025. [Author Resources]
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MDPI Institutional Open Access Program (IOAP)UR authors will receive a 10% discount on APC fees for accepted articles in MDPI journals. [Author Resources]
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PLOS (Public Library of Science)VIVA has started a two-year institutional partnership with PLOS in their Flat Fee Agreement, which allows corresponding authors at participating institutions to publish open access articles in seven PLOS journals at no cost: PLOS Complex Systems, PLOS Computational Biology, PLOS Digital Health, PLOS Genetics, PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases, PLOS ONE, and PLOS Pathogens.
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Royal Society of ChemistryThis agreement enables all corresponding authors affiliated with participating academic institutions to publish open access (OA) in more than 40 RSC scholarly journals, both fully OA and hybrid, with no publishing fees or limits on OA articles published. The agreement also provides reading access to the full RSC Gold package of 50-plus scholarly journals. Authors who publish OA under this agreement can publish under a CC BY or CC BY-NC open license. [Author Resources]
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SAGE Transformative OA AgreementNEW Corresponding authors at UR are able to publish open access articles with no APC fees in 900+ subscription journals in the Sage Premier and Gold packages. [Author Resources]
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Springer NatureVIVA has started a two-year transformative agreement with Springer Nature that will allow corresponding authors at participating institutions [UR is a participant] to publish open access articles in Springer Hybrid journals at no additional cost, as well as reading access to more than 2,350 Continuing Access journals. [Author Resources]
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Taylor & FrancisCOMING in 2025 . Details to come in 2025!
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Wiley (Access to joint VIVA fund for APCs)Researchers from any participating VIVA institution (including UR) are able to publish Open Access articles using a central fund to cover author publication charges (APCs). Funding is distributed on a first come first serve basis. More details are available at the linked FAQ.
Open access journal hosting
A brief description of the open access journal hosting services:
At the University of Richmond, Open Access is devoted to making information available online, free, and unrestricted. In addition to scholarly publications, the Open Access Movement also includes Open Science, Open Data, and Open Education.
Open Access 1) Allows greater access to resources supporting research, through open access publishing or open access repositories; and 2) Allows for text or data mining.
Please see below for UR's open access to research repository. These are peer review journals hosted on URichmond's servers.
https://scholarship.richmond.edu/peer_review_list.html Heroism Science
https://libguides.richmond.edu/openaccess
(https://scholarship.richmond.edu/heroism-science/ and Interdisciplinary Journal of Leadership Studies
(https://scholarship.richmond.edu/ijls/) are both peer reviewed.
Crista LaPrade and Sam Cabo in the Law library as “staff who provide publishing support”.
Optional Fields
Website URL where information about the institution’s support for open access is available:
Additional documentation to support the submission:
Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
Scholarship Repository and Open Access: https://scholarship.richmond.edu/
Faculty Learning Community: https://provost.richmond.edu/faculty-development/faculty-learning-communities/2016-2017%20Communities/new-models.html
Information provided by Crista LaPrade, Digital Asset Management and Preservation Administrator, and Samantha Guss, Social Sciences Librarian for Data, Statistics, & Government Information
The information presented here is self-reported. While AASHE staff review portions of all STARS reports and institutions are welcome to seek additional forms of review, the data in STARS reports are not verified by AASHE. If you believe any of this information is erroneous or inconsistent with credit criteria, please review the process for inquiring about the information reported by an institution or simply email your inquiry to stars@aashe.org.