Yes, faculty, staff, and students can contribute scholarship and other literature to the repository.
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What are the benefits?
- Works in the repository are much more visible than those only available through a journal or library subscription. On a practical level, it is designed to work with search engines like Google, which increases the discoverability of publications. Research demonstrates that the more accessible a publication is, the more readership and citations it ultimately receives.
- Each work is assigned a unique URL, which can be listed on CV’s, resumes, applications, and personal websites.
If I submit a paper to the repository, would that hurt its chances of getting published in other journals?
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Here is some language from a big publisher on the topic of prior publications: "An author should not in general publish manuscripts describing essentially the same research in more than one journal or primary publication. Elsevier does not view the following uses of a work as prior publication: publication in the form of an abstract; publication as an academic thesis; publication as an electronic preprint."
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Publishers are more concerned if an item has gone through peer-review in a prior publication and usually will accept the addition of a statement like “This is an original manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in [JOURNAL TITLE] on [date of publication], available at: http://www.tandfonline.com/[Article DOI].”
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Your paper would be considered a "electronic pre-print or pre-publication academic thesis." One of the benefits of publishing in the repository is you have a citation and permanent URL to use for your CV or graduate school applications. Items can always be removed by the library if a publisher requires it or you don't want the work to be available anymore.
Please contact the Scholarly Communication & Resource Services Librarian, Victoria Peters to learn more.