Overall Rating	Gold
Overall Score	71.89
Liaison	Isabel Savransky
Submission Date	Nov. 14, 2023

STARS v2.2

Ontario Tech University
AC-11: Open Access to Research

Status	Score	Responsible Party
	1.33 / 2.00	Isabel Savransky Sustainability & Asset Planner Office of Campus Infrastructure and Sustainability

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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://ir.library.ontariotechu.ca/

A brief description of the open access repository:

e-scholar is a digital repository of Ontario Tech research that is provided by the Library. e-scholar collects, preserves, and showcases the academic work of the Ontario Tech community, including faculty publications and graduate theses and dissertations. Materials in e-scholar are openly available to the world and discoverable through search engines such as Google Scholar. To date more than 1300 items have been deposited in escholar

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?:

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?:

Yes

A brief description of the open access journal hosting services:

The Library provides a journal hosting service in collaboration with the Ontario Council of University Libraries and Scholars Portal through the OJS (Open Journal System) platform. OJS is open source software developed by the Canadian nonprofit PKP (Public Knowledge Project). The platform’s features include support for submissions, online publication, reading tools, indexing and admin tools such as statistics.
Link for more info: https://ojs.scholarsportal.info/ontariotechu/

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:

http://guides.library.uoit.ca/openaccess

Additional documentation to support the submission:

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Data source(s) and notes about the submission:

Data source: Scholarly Resources, Ontario Tech University Library

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