National University Institutional Repository

Check Your Permissions! 

The Open Access repository requires agreement to a non-exclusive distribution license. The deposit does NOT require the transfer of copyright.

You must have permission to grant the distribution license. How do you know whether you can? 

1. Find your license

   1. Check your email for the original copyright agreement for your manuscript.

      1. Review it to see whether there is language that specifies that you may make your work available via an institutional repository or a personal website.
   2. Use the Open Policy Finder list of publisher copyright policies and self-archiving.
      • This allows you to search for the journal title or publisher if you do not have access to the copyright transfer agreement. 
   3. Check the publisher's website

2. Confirm what version you are allowed to deposit: final published manuscript, accepted manuscript, or preprint.

   • Published manuscript= the published version (i.e. with the publisher's formatting and page numbers). 

   • Accepted manuscript = includes revisions made through the peer/editorial review process, but it should not include publisher branding or final editing.
   • Pre-print/submitted =  the article draft as you first submitted it for publication. It does not include revisions made through the peer/editorial review process, nor include publisher branding or final editing.

3. Confirm if there is an embargo on your manuscript

   • This is a period of time post-publication that you must wait before the publisher allows it to be publicly shared in our repository.

   • An embargo does NOT prevent you from submitting to our open collection - we will simply hold your manuscript until the embargo period has passed

Please read the license carefully. If you have any questions, please contact us or schedule 1-1 copyright consultation.

Should I submit to the "NU Scholarly Work (Restricted)" collection? 

You should only submit to our restricted collection if you are unable to submit either

1. any version of your manuscript to our open collection or
2. any version that you are comfortable with to our open collection. For example, you may be allowed to submit your pre-print, but you may not be comfortable with that version being public.

In those cases, please instead submit your most complete (published or accepted) version of your manuscript to our restricted repository. Only the description, not the full text, be available to the public. Readers will be directed to contact you for permission to read the full text.