Overall Rating Gold
Overall Score 66.39
Liaison Phil Valko
Submission Date March 4, 2022

STARS v2.2

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

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 1.33 / 2.00 Cassandra Hage
Sustainability Manager
Office of Sustainability
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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:
A brief description of the open access repository:

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/.


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?:
No

A copy of the institution's open access policy:
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The institution's open access policy:

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.


Does the policy cover the entire institution? :
No

Does the institution provide an open access article processing charge (APC) fund for employees?:
No

A brief description of the open access APC fund:
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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:

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.


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:
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