Overall Rating	Gold - expired
Overall Score	65.15
Liaison	Amber Saxton
Submission Date	Jan. 8, 2021

STARS v2.2

George Mason University
AC-11: Open Access to Research

Status	Score	Responsible Party
	2.00 / 2.00	Arthur Rouner Director Mason Publishing

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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:

http://mars.gmu.edu/

A brief description of the open access repository:

The Mason Archival Repository Service (MARS) offers archiving and sharing options that include persistent URLs, DOIs, searchable metadata, full-text indexing, and long-term preservation. The repository services offered are a free, secure place to archive and share research output.

George Mason Institutional Dataverse, hosted by the Odum Institute, is used for archiving numeric and geospatial data files.

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?:

A copy of the institution's open access policy:

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The institution's open access policy:

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APC fund

Does the institution provide an open access article processing charge (APC) fund for employees?:

Yes

A brief description of the open access APC fund:

George Mason University, through the University Libraries, will provide financial support to Mason scholars and researchers who wish to publish their work in open access (OA) journals. Faculty, post-doctoral fellows, and registered graduate students are eligible to apply to Mason’s Open Access Publishing Fund (OAPF) for assistance with article processing fees required by some OA journals. There is a structured application process as well as specified guidelines.

OAPF: http://library.gmu.edu/about/oa-fund

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?:

Yes

A brief description of the open access journal hosting services:

Mason offers advice and support for departments, centers, and units at GMU interested in producing online, open-access journals. The University currently use Open Journal Systems (OJS) as its primary publishing platform. Mason also consults on additional journal platforms and hopes to expand its offerings in the future.

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:

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Website URL where information about the institution’s support for open access is available:

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