1. BYU ScholarsArchive 101
Everything you need to know to place your work in BYU’s open access repository – and why it matters
Matt Hill
Latin American and Iberian Area Studies Librarian
Mandy Oscarson
Scholarly Communications Specialist

2. What We’ll Cover What is ScholarsArchive? Why should I care?
How to upload your papers
Bonus!
Questions

3. What Is ScholarsArchive?
Open access repository
Supports all file types, no space limits
Easy, fast way to preserve and promote research
Monthly reports
Great visibility in Google searches
Switched from ContetDM to Digital Commons for better reporting and greater visibility

5. Why Should I Care? Goal of scholarly research: SHARE KNOWLEDGE
Advantages :
Easy access = more downloads = higher citations = good for CV
Retain author rights
Data friendly – meet grant requirements for data management
Showcase your students’ work/projects
Recruiting tool
Free for you
Social Change/impact!!! It’s not just about sharing knowledge, it’s what we do with it after it’s published.
Easy access – make available to students and other collaborators.

7. Institutional Repository
Preparing to Upload
Pre-Print
Post-Print
Publisher’s Version
Determine your author rights
What?
When?
Embargos
Where?
Personal Website
Institutional Repository
Other (e.g., Research
Gate)
Copyright owned by….; final published version found here….
Embargo- put it up and Mandy can hold it back; still findable

8. Uploading Your Paper Head to scholarsarchive.byu.edu
On the left, find “Author Corner”
Click “Submit Research”
Create account or sign in
Complete submission agreement
Fill out the form
Upload your work
Help/information pages can be found here:

9. What To Do Now Create an account on ScholarsArchive
Start going through your CV
…but I don’t have time!
Recruit assistants to help
Start with 5
your CV to

10. Other Things ScholarsArchive Can Do
Data Management
Journals
Conferences
Student Work
Books

11. Questions?

12. Preparing to Upload Finding author rights Need more help?
Author agreements
Journal website
Contact publisher
Need more help?
Publisher permission request s (3 weeks or else)

13. In the Future Negotiate your agreements Keep records
Add an addendum: copyright.byu.edu/specific or copyright.byu.edu/general
Keep records
Of publishing agreements
Different versions of paper
Look for open access outlets
Write open access fees into funding
Gold: open access journal, may charge a publishing fee (could be thousands of dollars)
Green: self-archiving, putting your paper in institutional or subject repository
Gold
Green