Overall Rating Silver
Overall Score 63.24
Liaison Victoria Ho
Submission Date Feb. 8, 2024

STARS v2.2

OCAD University
AC-11: Open Access to Research

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 0.67 / 2.00 Chris Landry
Scholarly Communications and Copyright Librarian
Library Services
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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://openresearch.ocadu.ca/

A brief description of the open access repository:
OCAD University Open Research Repository is an open access platform to collect, preserve, distribute and promote scholarly output from the OCAD University community. All content is managed and made accessible by the University Library using an EPrints 3, open source software developed by the University of Southhampton.

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? :
No

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:
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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:
OCAD U does not mandate open access publishing but Faculty Senate did approve a “Statement of Support” for open access which is not published but appears in the September 2016 Senate minutes and on the Scholarly Communications LibGuide here: https://ocadu.libguides.com/scholcomm/oa

"OCAD University recognizes that open access is consistent with its commitment to accessibility, transformative education, scholarship, research, and innovation. OCAD University encourages all OCAD U authors and creators to deposit their research outputs into OCAD University’s Open Research Repository for preservation and dissemination."

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