| Overall Rating | Gold |
|---|---|
| Overall Score | 78.59 |
| Liaison | Beverley Ayeni |
| Submission Date | March 1, 2024 |
University of Toronto Mississauga
AC-11: Open Access to Research
| Status | Score | Responsible Party |
|---|---|---|
|
1.33 / 2.00 |
Minali
Giani Sustainability Intern Facilities Management and Planning |
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:
UTM uses TSpace, which is “a free and secure research repository established by University of Toronto Libraries to disseminate and preserve the scholarly record of University of Toronto community, including faculty and graduate student research.” As a part of the CARL Adoptive Repositories Program, TSpace also accepts submissions from Canadian researchers whose institutions do not have their own repositories.
In addition, the UTM Library offers a professional typesetting service to distinguish their accepted manuscripts from publishers’ versions.
All items in TSpace are openly accessible, either immediately or after publisher's embargo period.
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:
N/A
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:
N/A
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:
Journal Production Services at the University of Toronto Libraries support open access publishing at U of T by providing free hosting for academic faculty and student journals on Open Journal Systems (OJS) platform.
OJS is a collaborative, open-source publishing platform developed and maintained by the Public Knowledge Project (PKP) that assists with every stage of the refereed publishing process, from submissions through peer review and online publication. Journal publishers have control over their content, editorial workflows, policies, and website interface, while the UTL team provides technical support and troubleshooting for the platform.
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:
The University of Toronto Libraries (UTL) provides financial support to a number of external initiatives that work to unlock research created across disciplines. UTL also provide resources for researchers and faculty looking to publish OA.
Support for open infrastructure & initiatives:
• APC discounts- UTL has negotiated discounts on article processing charges (APCs) for researchers looking to publish in a number of Open Access journals.
• arXiv- UTL is an institutional supporting member of Arxiv, which holds e-prints in STEM subjects, including Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics, Quantitative Biology, Quantitative Physics, and Statistics.
• Directory of Open Access Journals- UTL is a member of the Directory of Open Access Journals, a community-organized index of openly accessible publications. DOAJ strives to make research and data free of charge for users, and has indexed over 3.4 million journal articles to date.
• Erudit Journals- UTL is a partner of Erudit, one of Canada’s major publishers of both English and French-language research. Over 95% of Erudit’s content is openly accessible
• Open Library of Humanities- UTL financially supports the Open Library of Humanities in its efforts to sustain open access publishing, while reducing author fees and article processing charges.
• Punctum Books- UTL is a supporting library member of Punctum Books, a scholar-led, queer-led, and peer-reviewed diamond open-access (OA) academic book publisher devoted to academic and para-academic authors working in any field in the humanities, social sciences, fine arts, and architecture & design who want to publish books that are genre-bending and which take experimental risks with the forms and styles of intellectual writing. This membership helps to subsidize publication of high-quality OA books and aids in the sustainability of open-source and community-owned infrastructure for OA books.
• SCOAP3- The University of Toronto Libraries supports the Sponsoring Consortium in Publishing for Particle Physics. SCOAP3 functions by diverting library funding that would normally go towards journal subscriptions, towards article processing charge payments for researchers from participating universities. Since 2014, SCOAP3 has enabled the publishing of more than 20,000 openly accessible articles.
• TSpace- The University Library offers support to faculty who wish to deposit their Gold and Green OA research into TSpace, UofT’s institutional repository. TSpace provides stable links to articles, as well as metadata population, helping to increase visibility in web searches, while ensuring access to Green AO research through specific versions of research documents.
https://onesearch.library.utoronto.ca/copyright/open-access-investment#APC
https://onesearch.library.utoronto.ca/copyright/utl-publisher-relationships
The University of Toronto Libraries (UTL) provides financial support to a number of external initiatives that work to unlock research created across disciplines. UTL also provide resources for researchers and faculty looking to publish OA.
Support for open infrastructure & initiatives:
• APC discounts- UTL has negotiated discounts on article processing charges (APCs) for researchers looking to publish in a number of Open Access journals.
• arXiv- UTL is an institutional supporting member of Arxiv, which holds e-prints in STEM subjects, including Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics, Quantitative Biology, Quantitative Physics, and Statistics.
• Directory of Open Access Journals- UTL is a member of the Directory of Open Access Journals, a community-organized index of openly accessible publications. DOAJ strives to make research and data free of charge for users, and has indexed over 3.4 million journal articles to date.
• Erudit Journals- UTL is a partner of Erudit, one of Canada’s major publishers of both English and French-language research. Over 95% of Erudit’s content is openly accessible
• Open Library of Humanities- UTL financially supports the Open Library of Humanities in its efforts to sustain open access publishing, while reducing author fees and article processing charges.
• Punctum Books- UTL is a supporting library member of Punctum Books, a scholar-led, queer-led, and peer-reviewed diamond open-access (OA) academic book publisher devoted to academic and para-academic authors working in any field in the humanities, social sciences, fine arts, and architecture & design who want to publish books that are genre-bending and which take experimental risks with the forms and styles of intellectual writing. This membership helps to subsidize publication of high-quality OA books and aids in the sustainability of open-source and community-owned infrastructure for OA books.
• SCOAP3- The University of Toronto Libraries supports the Sponsoring Consortium in Publishing for Particle Physics. SCOAP3 functions by diverting library funding that would normally go towards journal subscriptions, towards article processing charge payments for researchers from participating universities. Since 2014, SCOAP3 has enabled the publishing of more than 20,000 openly accessible articles.
• TSpace- The University Library offers support to faculty who wish to deposit their Gold and Green OA research into TSpace, UofT’s institutional repository. TSpace provides stable links to articles, as well as metadata population, helping to increase visibility in web searches, while ensuring access to Green AO research through specific versions of research documents.
https://onesearch.library.utoronto.ca/copyright/open-access-investment#APC
https://onesearch.library.utoronto.ca/copyright/utl-publisher-relationships
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