If you are an Emory faculty member, you can submit your works to OpenEmory. If your department uses Emory FIRST, you can use that system to deposit. The schools currently using Emory FIRST are:
You may also request that library staff submit materials on your behalf. For more information, see Option 2 on our How to Submit page.
We currently accept faculty-authored:
See our Deposit Advice page for additional information about determining what you are allowed to submit.
Publishers' policies vary about which versions of a work may be placed in open access repositories. You can determine what your publisher will allow by consulting the author agreement you signed when your article was accepted for publication.
To determine which version of an article you are allowed to post in OpenEmory, you can also search the SHERPA/RoMEO database, which contains summaries of journal publishers' policies.
For other types of works, such as book chapters or presentations, see our Deposit Advice page.
Yes. You can deposit works with any number of authors, even if your co-authors are not Emory faculty members. Each joint author holds copyright in the work, and each has the authority to grant Emory the non-exclusive license necessary to post that work in OpenEmory.
However, we recommend that you get your co-authors' approval before depositing a work.
You are welcome to deposit works written prior to the creation of OpenEmory, provided that, in your author agreement, you retained the right to post your work on a freely accessible website.
OpenEmory welcomes the inclusion of links to supplemental material, both publicly accessible and restricted. The OpenEmory staff would be happy to assist you with including these links to your article in OpenEmory. Please feel free to contact us at openemory@listserv.cc.emory.edu. For additional information and help with managing your research data, please see Research Data Management.
Yes. If you choose to submit a work to OpenEmory, you may also specify an embargo period. Your work will be archived in OpenEmory but not publicly accessible for the duration of the embargo period.
Since OpenEmory is intended as a permanent record of the university faculty's scholarly output, removing content is strongly discouraged. We realize, however, that in some circumstances you might need to remove material. Please contact us at openemory@listserv.cc.emory.edu to discuss your particular situation.
You cannot submit copyrighted material to OpenEmory that you only have permission to publish in print. You can either choose not to submit your work to OpenEmory, or you can submit the work without the copyrighted material.
In order to submit your work to OpenEmory, you need the right to post your work on an institutional web site or an institutional repository that is publicly accessible online.
If your work was published, the publisher may restrict which version of your work you may post: original manuscript (aka pre-print), author's final manuscript (aka post-print), or a final published version. The publisher may also require an embargo or delay period before the work can be publicly accessible. OpenEmory accommodates both of these situations.
If you can't locate a publisher's policy on your author agreement, or you're not certain how to interpret the language in your author agreement, please contact us at scholcomm@listserv.cc.emory.edu. We'll be happy to help.
There are two options. First, depositing in another repository, such as PubMed Central, arXiv, or SSRN, does not stop you from depositing in OpenEmory. In fact, we are working with existing repositories to capture open access works authored by Emory faculty, and are doing so with PubMed Central.
The second option is to include the citation information for the work in OpenEmory and include a link to the work in the other open access repository. With this option, realize that your work will not be permanently preserved at Emory.
Your Emory Faculty Title, School, Division, and email address come from your Emory Shared Data Directory listing. OpenEmory staff do not have the access to make any changes. However, you may follow these links to make or request changes to your directory listing.
The publications list in your OpenEmory profile only includes works that have been deposited in the OpenEmory repository. If you would like other works to be added to the list, please see our How to Submit page.
Visit our Author Rights page for information about your rights as an author.
There are lots of benefits to depositing in OpenEmory.
It won't. OpenEmory does not affect your ability to submit your works for publication. Peer review will be determined by the practices in your field and by the policies of the publisher. OpenEmory will simply store whatever version your publisher allows, after your work is accepted for publication.
Content you post in OpenEmory will be managed by Emory University Libraries, and you will have a personal profile page listing all of your works. You will receive a permanent link to any works stored in OpenEmory. You will be able to share links either to your profile, or to any individual work, with colleagues, co-authors, or others who may be interested in your work.
Additionally, if you leave Emory or retire, your personal/departmental web page will likely be taken down. If you store your works in OpenEmory, we will preserve them and make them permanently accessible.
Work deposited in OpenEmory becomes visible to people around the world via search engines such as Google and other indexing services. Posting final published versions of articles can increase your citation rates and impact. Making earlier versions of your work available allows you to establish priority, and increases the visibility of your work to colleagues and others around the world.
If your publisher does not object to deposit in an institutional open access repository, there is no need for you to pay a separate fee to the publisher for the same level of access. If you wish to do so, of course, you are free to pay the publisher the open access fee, and some grant funders allow grant moneys to be used for this purpose.
There are two options. First, depositing in another repository, such as PubMed Central, arXiv, or SSRN, does not stop you from depositing in OpenEmory. In fact, we are working with existing repositories to capture open access works authored by Emory faculty, and are doing so with PubMed Central.
The second option is to include the citation information for the work in OpenEmory and provide a link to the work in the other open access repository. With this option, realize that your works will not be permanently preserved at Emory.
The record for each work will indicate whether it is a pre-print, post-print, or a final published version. Based on feedback from faculty, Emory accepts the latest version possible under the author agreement.
Whenever possible, the record will include a link to and citation information for the published version, to make clear that the published version is the preferred version, and that the Emory copy is a secondary copy for archival purposes and for readers who do not have access to the published version.