Overall Rating	Gold
Overall Score	73.99
Liaison	Mary-Lee Townsend
Submission Date	Oct. 20, 2021

STARS v2.2

Western University
AC-11: Open Access to Research

Status	Score	Responsible Party
	1.33 / 2.00	Mary-Lee Townsend Sustainability & Compliance Manager Sustainability Office

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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://ir.lib.uwo.ca/

A brief description of the open access repository:

Scholarship@Western collects, disseminates, archives, and preserves a variety of materials created or sponsored by Western University. Scholarship@Western facilitates knowledge sharing and promotes open access to the academic and professional achievements of members of the Western community.

Deposit in Scholarship@Western satisfies the Canadian Tri-Agency Open Access Policy on Publications as well as requirements of other research funding bodies.

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:

Western University does not currently have an institutional OA policy, however there is currently a Provost Task Force on Open Access & Scholarly Publishing that will be undertaking campus-wide consutations in 2021 related to creating a campus-wide OA policy. Western Libraries does have an OA Statement: https://www.lib.uwo.ca/scholarship/index.html - but this is NOT an institutional policy but one that guides the work of Western Libraries.

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:

No, Western University no longer supports an OA fund because it was only able to support a very small number of authors, and was not a sustainable model for supporting OA. Western Libraries does support OA publishing through memberships with publishers and organizations that provide discounts on APCs. Using funds to support memberships is a more sustainable model as it supports OA infrastructure, and is becoming more common in many institutions rather than OA publishing funds. More information on Western Libraries financial support for OA is here: https://www.lib.uwo.ca/scholarship/oasupport.html

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:

Yes, Western Libraries hosts and supports publishing of open access journals through OJS, an open source journal publishing platform developed by the Public Knowledge Project (PKP).
Western Libraries uses the OJS platform to host journals. More information is here: https://www.lib.uwo.ca/scholarship/journal_publishing.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:

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

https://www.lib.uwo.ca/scholarship/index.html

Additional documentation to support the submission:

Green_OA_at_Western.pdf

Data source(s) and notes about the submission:

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