| Overall Rating | Gold |
|---|---|
| Overall Score | 65.26 |
| Liaison | Matt Wolsfeld |
| Submission Date | March 21, 2023 |
University of Saskatchewan
AC-11: Open Access to Research
| Status | Score | Responsible Party |
|---|---|---|
|
2.00 / 2.00 |
Matt
Wolsfeld Community Engagement Co-ordinator 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:
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
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 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? :
Does the institution provide an open access article processing charge (APC) fund for employees?:
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
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:
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
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:
Additional documentation to support the submission:
Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
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