Scholarship@Western is an Institutional Repository and can help you meet Tri-agency open access requirements at no cost to you.
Sharing your research as broadly as possible has an impact on impact. Publishing with a scholarly journals is one critical first step, but journals lock their content behind expensive paywalls, making your scholarship inaccessible to readers who are not otherwise affiliated with an institution wealthy enough to afford a journal subscription. This contributes to major global inequities of access and participation in systems of research, scholarship, and publishing.
To ensure that the broadest possible audience can access and read your work, you can share your work in an open access repository, regardless of where you publish. This type of sharing via a repository is often called self-archiving or Green Open Access (OA).
The institutional Repository (IR) can also help you meet OA requirements form funders, usually by supplying the author accepted manuscript for hosting in the IR. It's a win win! a copy of the paper in the journal AND a copy in the IR, boosting it's signal and reach! Contact RSCLIB@uwo.ca for more information.
To create a Scholarship@Western account:
To login to Scholarship@Western:
For more information try this help page or contact RSCLib@uwo.ca
Can published articles be posted in Scholarship@Western? The short answer is maybe. Visit Shareyourpaper.org and enter the DOI of your paper. We will gather information about your paper and find the easiest way to share it.
Do you want to understand more about publisher and journal policies and what they permit? Try exploring Sherpa Romeo or contact us.
