| Overall Rating | Gold |
|---|---|
| Overall Score | 75.40 |
| Liaison | Mary-Lee Townsend |
| Submission Date | Jan. 16, 2025 |
Western University
AC-8: Responsible Research and Innovation
| Status | Score | Responsible Party |
|---|---|---|
|
5.17 / 7.00 |
8.1 Published ethical code of conduct for research
Online location of the institution’s ethical code of conduct for research:
Copy of the institution’s ethical code of conduct for research:
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8.2 Recognition of integrated, community-based, and extra-academic research
Description or text of the promotion/tenure guidelines or policies that explicitly recognize integrated research:
Do the promotion/tenure guidelines or policies that recognize integrated research cover all of the institution’s research-producing academic divisions?:
Does the institution have published promotion or tenure guidelines or policies that give explicit positive recognition to community-based research?:
Description or text of the promotion/tenure guidelines or policies that explicitly recognize community-based research:
Do the promotion/tenure guidelines or policies that recognize community-based research cover all of the institution’s research-producing academic divisions?:
Does the institution have published promotion or tenure guidelines or policies that give explicit positive recognition to research impact or reach outside of academic journals?:
Description or text of the promotion/tenure guidelines or policies that explicitly recognize research impact or reach outside of academic journals:
- Clause 3.2.2 of the Faculty collective agreement, which states, in part, “the research record may include ANY material deemed by the candidate to be relevant including non-refereed articles, unpublished documents, works in progress and creative works…”
Do the promotion/tenure guidelines or policies that recognize research impact or reach outside of academic journals cover all of the institution’s research-producing academic divisions?:
If Yes to any of the above, provide at least one form of evidence (website URL or document). If reporting on multiple guidelines or policies, provide the best available example and/or a website that provides an overview of promotion/tenure for academic employees.
Copy of the institution’s promotion/tenure guidelines or policies:
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8.3 Inter-campus collaboration for responsible research and innovation
Description of the institution’s inter-campus collaborations for responsible research and innovation:
Western is a full institutional member of SPARC (Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition). See membership listed here: https://sparcopen.org/who-we-are/members/
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8.4 Support for open access publishing
Narrative and/or website URL providing an overview of the open access repository:
Western has an institutional repository where staff and students can disseminate their research at no cost https://ir.lib.uwo.ca/.
- Additionally, Western Libraries has journal publishing software (OJS) where journal hosting is supported https://ojs.lib.uwo.ca/
Does the institution have one or more published policies that require its employees to publish scholarly works open access or archive final post-peer reviewed versions of scholarly works in an open access repository?:
Do the open access policies cover all of the institution’s research-producing academic divisions?:
Text or online location of the institution’s open access policies:
WL offers advice on how one can make use of the IR and share copies of one's work, without copyright violation, such as hosting a post-print and not the final PDF, in the IR ( aka. green OA) in order to get the widest distribution of the work. This is one way to avoid paying APCs, and makes both publishing and reading of research more equitable. WL also supports a number of OA publishing initiatives https://www.lib.uwo.ca/scholarship/oasupport.html
Copy of the institution’s open access policies:
Does the institution provide an open access article processing charge (APC) fund for employees?:
Narrative and/or website URL providing an overview of the open access APC fund:
Does the institution negotiate or participate in transformative open access agreements that are consistent with ESAC guidelines?:
Narrative and/or website URL providing an overview of the institution’s transformative open access agreements with publishers:
Western Libraries is part of the CRKN consortium, and their Transformative agreements are listed in the registry: https://esac-initiative.org/about/transformative-agreements/agreement-registry/
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