Overall Rating	Gold
Overall Score	73.66
Liaison	Amber Saxton
Submission Date	Feb. 22, 2024

STARS v2.2

George Mason University
AC-11: Open Access to Research

Status	Score	Responsible Party
	2.00 / 2.00	Wally Grotophorst Associate University Librarian University Libraries

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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://mars.gmu.edu/home

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. The George Mason Dataverse is used for archiving/publishing research data, 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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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?:

Yes

A brief description of the open access APC fund:

We have shifted our OA funding support to "read and publish" agreements negotiated between publishers and the Virtual Library of Virginia (VIVA). The majority of these agreements eliminate 100% of the APC for Mason authors. Some offer discounts. By virtue of these agreements, we are able to provide APC relief for a much greater number of authors than our OA Publishing Fund was able to support. Details on the VIVA provided agreements are here: https://vivalib.org/va/open/apc

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 university departments, centers and units interested in producing online, open-access journals. We currently use the Open Journal Systems (OJS) platform, hosted on library servers.

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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Additional documentation to support the submission:

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Data source(s) and notes about the submission:

https://infoguides.gmu.edu/osf
https://oer.gmu.edu
https://mom.gmu.edu
https://publishing.gmu.edu/services/repositories/
https://library.gmu.edu/repository

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