Overall Rating	Gold
Overall Score	66.09
Liaison	Elizabeth Drake
Submission Date	March 3, 2023

STARS v2.2

Swarthmore College
AC-11: Open Access to Research

Status	Score	Responsible Party
	1.33 / 2.00	Elizabeth Drake Director of Sustainability Office of 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:

http://works.swarthmore.edu

A brief description of the open access repository:

Hosted by bepress on the Digital Commons platform, Works is a research information management system that aims to bring together all of the College's faculty output and research under one umbrella, in order to preserve and provide access to that research.

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:

Hosted by bepress on the Digital Commons platform, Swarthmore College Libraries provides journal publishing services for open access journals edited by Swarthmore students, faculty, and staff.

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:

Website URL where information about the institution’s support for open access is available:

https://guides.tricolib.brynmawr.edu/openaccess

Additional documentation to support the submission:

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Data source(s) and notes about the submission:

Information obtained through Office of Sustainability staff and in consultation with Maria Aghazarian, Scholarly Communications Librarian.

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