Overall Rating Gold
Overall Score 65.41
Liaison Ian Johnson
Submission Date April 19, 2024

STARS v2.2

Colorado College
AC-11: Open Access to Research

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 0.67 / 2.00 Rebecca Floyd
Digital Scholarship Librarian
Tutt Library
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Open access repository

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:
https://digitalcc.coloradocollege.edu/

A brief description of the open access repository:
Colorado College Libraries’ digitalCC is an institutional repository and digital archive for the Colorado College community at large. Our collection includes but is not limited to student theses, faculty publications, digitized archival materials, and born digital materials created by various campus departments.

Open access policy

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:
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Does the policy cover the entire institution? :
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APC fund

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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Open access journal hosting

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?:
No

A brief description of the open access journal hosting services:
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Optional Fields 

Estimated percentage of peer-reviewed scholarly works published annually by the institution’s employees that are deposited in a designated open access repository:
22

Website URL where information about the institution’s support for open access is available:
https://www.coloradocollege.edu/basics/welcome/leadership/policies/intellectual-property-and-copyright.html

Additional documentation to support the submission:
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Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
Colorado College has a policy stating that it "supports the concept of open access to scholarly work and encourages faculty, students, and staff to share their intellectual property"

APC Fund: The library pays for memberships in BioMed Central and SPARC (open access supporter). The library is thinking about ways to encourage OA publishing from faculty.

Faculty, staff, and students are encouraged to share their scholarly work. digitalCC (digitalcc.coloradocollege.edu) is the college’s repository for storing research data and allowing open access. However, there is no formal policy ensuring open access to scholarly work in any department.

Open Access Journal Hosting: The library offers journal hosting on the new institutional repository.

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