Overall Rating Gold
Overall Score 65.26
Liaison Matt Wolsfeld
Submission Date March 21, 2023

STARS v2.2

University of Saskatchewan
AC-11: Open Access to Research

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 2.00 / 2.00 Matt Wolsfeld
Community Engagement Co-ordinator
Office of Sustainability
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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://harvest.usask.ca/

A brief description of the open access repository:
HARVEST is an open access repository for research, scholarship, and artistic work created by the USask community.

There are also a selection of open access journals based at the University of Saskatchewan:
https://libguides.usask.ca/open_access/usask

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?:
Yes

A copy of the institution's open access policy:
OA-Commitment-2020-Adopted.pdf

The institution's open access policy:
The above policy is a commitment to making research open access renewed in 2020 by the Librarians and Archivists at the University of Saskatchewan.

All researchers funded by tri-agency grants are covered by: https://science.gc.ca/site/science/en/interagency-research-funding/policies-and-guidelines/open-access/tri-agency-open-access-policy-publications

Harvest Research Archive:
https://harvest.usask.ca/

Does the policy cover the entire institution? :
No

APC fund

Does the institution provide an open access article processing charge (APC) fund for employees?:
Yes

A brief description of the open access APC fund:
University's Publishing fund can be used to support open access:
https://vpresearch.usask.ca/rasi/documents/find-funding/internal-grants/publications-fund-guidelines-2020.pdf

USask Library Information on fees and waivers for open access publishing:
https://libguides.usask.ca/open_access/authors

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:
Harvest Research Archive:
https://harvest.usask.ca/

There are also a selection of open access journals based at the University of Saskatchewan:
https://libguides.usask.ca/open_access/usask

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://libguides.usask.ca/open_access

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