Overall Rating Bronze
Overall Score 38.48
Liaison Jesse Carswell
Submission Date June 27, 2023

STARS v2.2

Southern New Hampshire University
AC-11: Open Access to Research

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 0.00 / 2.00
"---" indicates that no data was submitted for this field

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?:
No

Website URL where the open access repository is available:
https://www.snhu.edu/student-experience/campus-experience/shapiro-library/academic-archive

A brief description of the open access repository:
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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:
academic_archive_policies (1) (1).pdf

The institution's open access policy:
SNHU has a voluntary open-access policy which covers research submissions from students, faculty, and administration. The Academic Archive Policies encourage open access for student and employee research submissions. The SNHU Academic Archive is an online institutional repository providing open, worldwide access to faculty and student research and materials related to the history of the University. The Academic Archive was initially made possible by a $500,000 National Leadership Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services.

Collection highlights include:

Community Economic Development Thesis Projects
The McIninch Art Gallery Permanent Collection
Center for Financial Studies Working Papers
Yearbooks
MFA Creative Theses

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?:
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:
30

Website URL where information about the institution’s support for open access is available:
https://www.snhu.edu/student-experience/campus-experience/shapiro-library/academic-archive

Additional documentation to support the submission:
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Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
https://academicarchive.snhu.edu/
https://academicarchive.snhu.edu/bitstream/handle/10474/202/academic_archive_policies.pdf?sequence=3&isAllowed=y
https://academicarchive.snhu.edu/handle/10474/202

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