Overall Rating Gold
Overall Score 70.33
Liaison Enid Cardinal
Submission Date March 3, 2022

STARS v2.2

Rochester Institute of Technology
AC-11: Open Access to Research

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 1.33 / 2.00 Neha Sood
Assistant Director for Campus Sustainability
RIT 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://scholarworks.rit.edu/about.html

A brief description of the open access repository:
RIT Scholar Works is the digital institutional repository for the Rochester Institute of Technology, managed by RIT Libraries. It contains the products of the research, scholarly, and creative pursuits of RIT’s faculty, staff, and students. Contents of this repository include, but are not limited to:

Articles
Electronic books and book chapters
Student theses and dissertations
Open access publications (journals published by RIT Open Access Publishing)
Schedules and proceedings for conferences hosted by RIT.

All of the materials in RIT Scholar Works are open access and fully accessible and therefore it only includes scholarship with an accompanying full text.

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:
RIT Libraries supports the Open Access movement by maintaining an institutional repository and publishing Open Access journals. RIT Scholar Works is the Open Access digital institutional repository for the Rochester Institute of Technology. It contains the full-text (or equivalent) of the products of the research, scholarly, and creative pursuits of RIT’s faculty, staff, and students.

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?:
Yes

A brief description of the open access journal hosting services:
RIT Libraries publishes and hosts open access journals, at no cost to the editors/authors, through our repository platform, RIT Scholar Works. You can see our journals here: https://scholarworks.rit.edu/peer_review_list.html

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:
4

Website URL where information about the institution’s support for open access is available:
https://library.rit.edu/digital-scholarship/open-access-publishing

Additional documentation to support the submission:
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Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
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