Washington University in St. Louis
AC-11: Open Access to Research

The Open Scholarship repository is a service of the Washington University in St. Louis libraries to provide free access to the scholarly output of the university. It includes faculty research, electronic theses & dissertations, data and datasets, and student scholarship. Digital Commons@Becker is a digital repository for hosting the scholarly work created at Washington University School of Medicine and enhancing its visibility and accessibility to scholars, researchers, and the public. Administered and maintained by the Bernard Becker Medical Library, Digital Commons@Becker provides groups, departments, centers, divisions, or programs at the School of Medicine with a platform for creating customized collections that reflect the wide range of their scholarly output. Collections can include journal articles, meeting abstracts, capstones, research papers, poster presentations, newsletters, videos, sound files, data, protocols, code, and more.

https://openscholarship.wustl.edu/ and https://digitalcommons.wustl.edu/.

Washington University adopted an Open Access Resolution in 2011: (https://libguides.wustl.edu/ld.php?content_id=57304759), that encourages authors to make their scholarly and creative works freely available. The Resolution does not require authors to publish scholarly works as open access or archive final post-peer reviewed versions of scholarly works in an open access repository.

Digital Library Program Services (DLPS) provides tools and services to support the Washington University community’s scholarly publishing and digital scholarship and the University Libraries’ digital collections and assets. Journals (https://journals.library.wustl.edu/journals/) are hosted on the Janeway platform, (https://janeway.systems/), an open source scholarly publishing platform that aligns with Washington University’s open access values.