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Scholarship@Western is an open access digital repository that collects, archives, preserves, and freely disseminates electronic copies of publications and other scholarly outputs by members of the Western University community. It aims to facilitate knowledge sharing and broaden the international recognition of Western’s academic excellence by providing open access to Western’s intellectual output and professional contributions.

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

To facilitate long term preservation and access, Western Libraries requires non-exclusive permission to archive, preserve, reproduce, and freely disseminate a digital copy of all scholarly journal articles, book chapters, conference papers, and other materials that you wish to share. Just as we moved from microforms to PDFs, in future we may need to migrate to new formats to continue preservation and dissemination of research outputs. Scholarship@Western is delivered via the Bepress Digital Commons software solution.

If you have any questions, suggestions, or comments, please contact Western Libraries.

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Share your paper with help from the library in Scholarship@Western. Legally, for free, in minutes. Join millions of researchers sharing their papers freely with colleagues and the public.

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You may share your paper if you ask the journal

Unlike most, the journal requires that you ask them before you share your paper freely. Asking only takes a moment as we find out who to contact and have drafted an email for you.

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The library has checked and the journal encourages you to freely share your paper so colleagues and the public can freely read and cite it.

Find the manuscript the journal accepted. It’s not a PDF from the journal site

This is the only version you’re able to share under copyright. The accepted manuscript is the word file or Latex export you sent the publisher after peer-review and before formatting (publisher proofs).

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It’s normal to share accepted manuscripts as the research is the same. It’s fine to save your file as a pdf, make small edits to formatting, fix typos, remove comments, and arrange figures.

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You can share your paper on request!

We checked and unfortunately the journal won’t let you share your paper freely with everyone.

The good news is the library can still legally make your paper much easier to find and access. We’ll put the publisher PDF in Scholarship@Western and then share it on your behalf whenever it is requested.

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We’ll only use this if something goes wrong.

We’ll only use this to send you a link to your paper when it is in Scholarship@Western. By depositing, you’re agreeing to the .

We’ll check it’s legal, then promote, and preserve your work

By depositing, you’re agreeing to the . You must also license your work CC-BY.

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You’ve done your part for now. Hopefully, we’ll send you a link soon. First, we’ll check to make sure it’s legal to share.

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Check back soon to see your paper live, or we’ll email you with issues.

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You can now put the link on your website, CV, any profiles, and ResearchGate.

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Check back soon to see your paper live, or we’ll email you with issues.

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We’ll email you a link to your paper in Scholarship@Western soon. Next time, before you publish check to see if your journal allows you to have the most impact by making your research available to everyone, for free.

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All that’s left to do is wait. Once the journal gives you permission to share, come back and we’ll help you finish the job.

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Make your research visible and see 30% more citations

Start by entering the DOI of your paper

Your paper is already freely available!

You may share your paper if you ask the journal

Your paper is already freely available!

Please enter your email to confirm deposit

You can freely share your paper!

✓ Find the manuscript the journal accepted. It’s not a PDF from the journal site

✓ Check there aren’t publisher logos or formatting

✓ Tell us your email

You can share your paper on request!

All we need is your email

We’ll check it’s legal, then promote, and preserve your work

We need an earlier version

We’ll double check your paper

Congrats, you’re done!

Congrats! Your paper will be available to everyone, forever!

Congrats, you’re done!

Hurray, you’re done!

You’ve done your part

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