Options for WU authors (When consistent with copyright agreement)
Authors from the School of Medicine use Digital Commons@Becker.
Authors from Arts & Sciences, School of Law, Brown School, McKelvey School of Engineering, Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts, and Olin School of Business use Open Scholarship.
OA Preprints
As part of the publishing process, authors may transfer all or selected rights to a publisher. The author keeps some rights by standard agreement, by using an addendum, or by negotiation. Most commonly, authors keep the right to self-archive a final author manuscript version (either before or after peer review). Sometimes there is an embargo.
In 2017, it was reported that 2,375 publishers (41 percent) allowed pre- and postprint versions of articles to be self-archived. 33 percent only allowed the self-archiving of the postprint--the final draft post-refereeing. 6 percent of publishers only allowed self-archiving of the preprint--the pre-refereeing draft.
Attitudes about sharing articles before peer review vary with disciplines and changes over time. Sometimes your publication agreement will require you remove preprints after peer review or update them to a postprint/final author manuscript version. You can check with the publisher or SHERPA/RoMEO or List of academic journals by preprint policy (Wikipedia)
The School of Medicine uses the Digital Commons@Becker repository. Arts & Sciences, School of Law, Brown School, McKelvey School of Engineering, Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts, and Olin Business School use Open Scholarship.
- Humanities Commons This link opens in a new windowdesigned by scholarly societies in the humanities to serve the needs of their members and others; a space to share and store humanities research, projects, and pedagogical materials
- PeerJ PreprintsBiological Sciences, Medical Sciences, and Health Sciences; PeerJ does not publish in the Physical Sciences, the Mathematical Sciences, the Social Sciences, or the Humanities (except where articles in those areas have clear applicability to the core areas of Biological, Medical or Health sciences)
- Zenodofor researchers, scientists, projects and institutions to share and showcase multidisciplinary research results (data and publications) that are not part of existing institutional or subject-based repositories; from CERN
Alternatives to WUSTL repositories
- Registry of Open Access Repositories (ROAR)The aim of ROAR is to promote the development of open access by providing timely information about the growth and status of repositories throughout the world. Open access to research maximises research access and thereby also research impact, making research more productive and effective.
- DOAROpenDOAR is the quality-assured, global Directory of Open Access Repositories. You can search and browse through thousands of registered repositories based on a range of features, such as location, software or type of material held.