| Overall Rating | Gold |
|---|---|
| Overall Score | 67.18 |
| Liaison | Weston Dripps |
| Submission Date | Aug. 19, 2024 |
Amherst College
AC-8: Responsible Research and Innovation
| Status | Score | Responsible Party |
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4.00 / 7.00 |
Weston
Dripps Director of Sustainability Sustainability |
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:
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:
Five College Women's Studies Research Center
www.fivecolleges.edu/faculty/womens-studies-research-center
Founded in 1991, the Five College Women’s Studies Research Center is a vibrant site of local, national, and international engaged, critical feminist scholarship, cultural production and activism from diverse perspectives. With an emphasis on emerging fields in women’s, gender, and sexuality studies in all disciplines, the Center also provides a forum in which faculty and graduate students in the Five Colleges, visiting scholars at all ranks from around the world, and partner organizations can present their work.
The Center is supported by the Five College consortium of Amherst, Hampshire, Mount Holyoke and Smith Colleges and the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Since 1966, the five institutions have been noted for their cooperation and innovation in higher education and boast one of the largest concentrations of women’s and gender studies scholars anywhere in the world.
Each year, the Center hosts a cohort of local and international scholars and activists for three to eight months, providing office space, access to Five College resources, and cultivating a community in which feminist work can flourish through interdisciplinary conversations, writing accountability groups, and opportunities to share and receive feedback on work-in-progress. The Center is also a site for members of diverse Five College feminist communities to present and discuss their work, coordinate reading groups, and host seminars, workshops and conferences.
Five College Consortium
https://www.fivecolleges.edu/funding-opportunities
As one of the oldest and most extensive higher education consortia in the country, the Five College Consortium cultivates opportunities for research collaboration across five college/university campuses in the Connecticut River Valley of western Massachusetts: UMass Amherst, Hampshire College, Mount Holyoke College, and Smith College.
The consortium brings together faculty from across the five campuses to develop and maintain innovative programs that cut across traditional disciplinary structures.
Through the consortium, students have access to 17 certificate programs, two undergraduate majors, 30 faculty seminars, two centers, 30 jointly appointed faculty, and at least a dozen additional programs that support performing arts festivals, undergraduate research, and student field trips and internships.
AALAC - The Alliance to Advance the Liberal Arts
The liberal arts colleges that comprise the AALAC vary in size, region, and resources but share common educational goals and institutional challenges. The AALAC strives to advance liberal arts education through collective efforts to support faculty research and teaching so as to enhance the overall experience of students and to develop faculty leadership. By working together, AALAC members seek to develop a broader view of their institutions in the landscape of higher education and thereby to address more effectively the pressing challenges facing American liberal arts colleges. Through assessment of AALAC activities and dissemination of our findings, the organization seeks to share best practices with other liberal arts colleges and to make the case to the larger public for the value of liberal education in the twenty-first century.
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8.4 Support for open access publishing
Narrative and/or website URL providing an overview of the open access repository:
https://libguides.amherst.edu/c.php?g=1265355&p=9465421#s-lg-box-31524845
Amherst Dataverse
Amherst College now has a Dataverse collection through the Harvard Dataverse. Dataverse is an open source repository to share, preserve, cite, explore, and analyze research data. Faculty are asked to share their research data through the Amherst College Dataverse.
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:
https://www.amherst.edu/library/services/facstaff/openaccessresolution
The Faculty of Amherst College is committed to disseminating the fruits of its research and scholarship as widely as possible. In keeping with that commitment, the Faculty adopts the following policy: Each Faculty member grants to Amherst College permission to make available his or her scholarly articles and to exercise the copyright in those articles. More specifically, each Faculty member grants to Amherst College a nonexclusive, irrevocable, worldwide license to exercise any and all rights under copyright relating to each of his or her scholarly articles, in any medium, provided that the articles are not sold for a profit, and to authorize others, including Faculty members, to do the same. The policy applies to all scholarly articles authored or co-authored while the person is a member of the Faculty except for any articles completed before the adoption of this policy and any articles for which the Faculty member entered into an incompatible licensing or assignment agreement before the adoption of this policy. The Dean of the Faculty or Dean of the Faculty’s designate will waive application of the policy for a particular article or delay access for a specified period of time upon express direction by a Faculty member. Each Faculty member will provide an electronic copy of the author’s final version of each article for which no waiver has been obtained no later than the date of its publication at no charge to the appropriate representative of the Dean of the Faculty’s Office in an appropriate format (such as PDF) specified by the Dean of the Faculty’s Office. The Dean of the Faculty’s Office may make the article available to the public in an open-access repository. The Office of the Dean of the Faculty will be responsible for interpreting this policy, resolving disputes concerning its interpretation and application, and recommending changes to the Faculty from time to time.
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:
The library will make up to $20,000 available each year to support open access publishing.
https://libguides.amherst.edu/c.php?g=1159621&p=9845783
Open Access Publication Charges (changes effective Spring 2023)
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The library will make up to $20,000 available each year from its materials budget to support open access publishing.
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Amherst College faculty publishing in peer-reviewed, open access publications may request up to $2,000 in assistance from the Library to pay Article Processing Charges (APCs) or Book Processing Charges (BPCs).
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Any funds not allocated by April 30th will return to the library’s materials budget. Fees charged by non-open-access journals/books to make individual articles/chapters freely available are not eligible for this grant.
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Faculty with co-authors at other institutions that offer APC/BPC support should coordinate funding requests across institutions to split costs when possible.
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:
Amherst has “Read & Publish" Agreements
https://libguides.amherst.edu/c.php?g=1265355&p=9278232#s-lg-box-31523375
‘"Read & Publish" Agreements with Amherst
Read and Publish Agreements combine OA publishing costs with our traditional reading-access journal subscription costs. The Amherst College Library now has Read and Publish Agreements with Cambridge University Press and IOP Publishing, allowing Amherst College-affiliated authors to publish articles OA at no cost in over 500 OA or Hybrid journals.
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