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Scholarly Communications

Information for the Smith College community on topics in Scholarly Communications including: open access, author's rights, copyright, and more.

ScholarWorks Readership Map

 

Smith ScholarWorks

screenshot of Smith ScholarWorks homepage

Benefits include:

  • Materials are full-text searchable and available for downloading from one central location.
  • Collections include a wide variety of publication types and materials: articles, conference papers, essays, podcasts, video, audio, datasets, open educational resources, and more.
  • Optimizes fast and accurate indexing by Google and Google Scholar.
  • Provides comprehensive reports and metrics, including alt-metrics, to allow uses to track usage.
  • Is a permanent digital archive for these materials that represents and highlights the scholarly output of Smith College.
  • Provides insight into the kind of work produced by departments and institutions, showing the Smith communities real-world impact on the global scholarly community.
  • As a general digital repository ScholarWorks satisfies the OSTP (Nelson Memo) [pdf] requirements for federally funded research to be made open access.

 

Smith's Open Access Policy was approved by faculty on April 22, 2015. The Open Access Policy establishes the terms under which Faculty members permit distribution of their scholarly articles via open access channels. This policy relies on Creative Commons licenses, which permit an author to grant specific copyright permissions without transferring copyright ownership.

Submitting Work to ScholarWorks

Any member of the Smith community: faculty, student, or staff may submit an item to ScholarWorks, as long as they are the original author of the item and have retained sufficient rights to deposit the work in the repository.

If you are faculty or staff, just send your citations, accepted manuscript versions, or any open access materials to ScholarWorks. Not sure what version you have or if it is open access? Just ask!

Undergraduate student work must be submitted by their professor or department.

Student authors who are submitting dissertations, master theses, and honors projects should consult the Libraries Theses, Dissertation, & Honors Project guide for instruction.

Journal editors (student or faculty) should contact ScholarWorks for information on how to set up their journal in ScholarWorks and/or submit materials.

What Kinds of Works may be Submitted?

  • Faculty, student, and staff scholarship
  • Online journals, newsletters, and podcasts
  • Presentations and posters
  • Data and datasets
  • Events and performances
  • Open Educational Resources
  • Open pedagogy
  • Grant reports, white papers, technical reports
  • Student theses and dissertations
  • Selected undergraduate student work
  • Journals

 

The repository supports most file types.