What to Know
Bucknell Digital Commons is our institutional repository, a place for collecting and disseminating faculty research and other publications and scholarly output related to our community.
Many faculty upload metadata records related to recent publications, often linking to paywalled or open places where the work was published. By sharing this information in the digital commons, they are increasing the visibility of their work and the chances that an interested reader might find it.
Digital Commons is also an important tool for increasing the accessibility of your work and making your work Green OA/Self-archiving your work.
By uploading a post-print of your work, in accordance with journal policies (Sherpa Romeo is a great site for searching these) or by using an author addendum to maintain come of your rights, we can create a viable and sustainable path to open access and the associated benefits for you and the community at large.
Links & Resources
- Bucknell's Open Access PolicyPassed in 2011 by Bucknell Faculty, this policy provides the university with a non-exclusive license to faculty articles for the purpose of making those works 'green' open access. Faculty may opt-out of this at their sole discretion.
- Bucknell Digital CommonsBucknell's Institutional Repository. Share the metadata of your scholarly work to increase its visibility OR upload your accepted manuscript or link to an OA version of your work to increase its accessibility.
- Sherpa RomeoGreen OA, also called 'self-archiving' is a powerful tool for increasing the visibility and accessibility of your work. Sherpa Romeo provides information on the standard policies surrounding self-archiving for thousands of journals and other information on the pathways to OA offered by the journal.
- SPARC Author AddendumThis author addendum can be used when negotiating with publishers to maintain certain non-exclusive elements of your copyright. Most importantly, using an addendum like this means that you maintain the right to distribute, make copies, and create derivatives of your own work.