| Overall Rating | Gold - expired |
|---|---|
| Overall Score | 72.46 |
| Liaison | Paul Mathisen |
| Submission Date | May 22, 2020 |
| Executive Letter | Download |
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
AC-11: Open Access to Research
| Status | Score | Responsible Party |
|---|---|---|
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0.00 / 2.00 |
Paul
Mathisen Dir. of Sustainability & Assoc. Prof Civil & Environmental Engineering |
How many of the institution’s research-producing divisions are covered by a published open access policy that ensures that versions of future scholarly articles by faculty and staff are deposited in a designated open access repository? (All, Some or None):
Which of the following best describes the open access policy? (Mandatory or Voluntary):
Does the institution provide financial incentives to support faculty members with article processing and other open access publication charges?:
A brief description of the open access policy, including the date adopted, any incentives or supports provided, and the repository(ies) used:
WPI has no open access policy for faculty or staff works. For students works (undergraduate and graduate), while there is no OA policy, studentss retain copyrights in their works as a condition of submitting their work for degree credit in the institutional repository. They agree that WPI can archive and publish their work, subject to limited embargoes and restrictions. The policy for graduate works (theses and dissertations) was adopted by the WPI faculty on 1/24/02; the policy for undergraduate works (IQPs and MQPs) was adopted by the WPI faculty on 2/20/07. The current repository of record is http://digitalcommons.wpi.edu. This repository will migrate to a new platform in fall 2020.
A copy of the institution's open access policy:
The institution's open access policy:
The website URL where the open access repository is available:
Estimated percentage of scholarly articles published annually by the institution’s faculty and staff that are deposited in a designated open access repository (0-100):
A brief description of how the institution’s library(ies) support open access to research:
In addition to the repository for student projects and research which includes over 12,000 works dating from the early 2000's to the present, the library (1) supports the DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals), 2) is a member of SPARC (Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition), and the NDLTD (National Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations); 3) provides tools in our discovery systems to highlight and filter research database results by OA status; 4) supports a hosted platform for OA peer reviewed journal publishing (Organizational Aesthetics), 5) provides basic instruction to faculty and students on the adfvantages of OA and OER through online guides and faculty workshops, e.g., https://libguides.wpi.edu/oa and https://libguides.wpi.edu/oer
The website URL where information about the programs or initiatives is available:
Additional documentation to support the submission:
Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
http://digitalcommons.wpi.edu; scheduled to migrate in fall 2020 to http://digital.wpi.edu
http://digitalcommons.wpi.edu; scheduled to migrate in fall 2020 to http://digital.wpi.edu
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