No, this is not a mandate. The word “shall” was chosen to strongly encourage participation and in the sense of the word “should.”

Not exactly! Academia.edu and ResearchGate don’t preserve your research in the same way that Scholars’ Bank or disciplinary repositories do. As academic scholarly networks, they’re focused on recruiting new members rather than reaching the largest possible audience. That’s great for finding new collaborators, but not for hooking into open scholarly infrastructure.

While co-authors have equal intellectual rights to a paper (even if your contributions aren’t equal!), it’s always good to talk about your open access plans when you’re selecting a venue for publication.

One or more of your collaborators may have an open access mandate from their institution or grantor that they must adhere to, so you can work together to make sure they have a version they can submit.

If your collaborators don’t have an open access policy and you don’t want to comply with the UO policy, you don’t need to seek an exemption. This is not a mandate.

Yes! The UO Libraries are here to help. Contact your subject librarian or scholars@uoregon.edu for help uploading, copyright, seeking permissions, or any questions you may have.

Scholars’ Bank is format agnostic and we welcome the deposit of any work created in association with your faculty appointment. Datasets will be directed to Scholars’ Bank Data for improved metadata and storage for datasets and large files. The Open Scholarship Policy is not a mandate and neither articles nor other materials are required to be deposited.

SciHub emerged in response to a closed information ecosystem characterized by poor user experience and unaffordable access to important, researcher-created work.

Elsevier is one of several major scholarly publishing congolomerates who have used their market share to build huge profit margins with “big deals” and ever-increasing subscription rates. 

Our Open Access Policy intends to make the collective output of the University of Oregon free and openly available using the legal means of publisher policy and author rights. By working within open scholarly infrastructure, we can be sure our work will go further than the walled garden of a subscription database.

Absolutely! Our primary goal with this policy was to increase the amount of University of Oregon scholarship that is available openly. If you’re already depositing your work in a disciplinary repository or preprint server, you’re already there!

If you’d like to help us with long-term preservation of UO scholarship (and further increase your reach), you can give us the DOI of your preprint through the same deposit form we use for everything else.

Disciplinary repositories or preprint servers are run by a variety of groups including scholarly societies, libraries, universities, scholarly publishers, nonprofit scholarly communication organizations, and other interested parties to provide a central hub for researchers in that discipline to share their work. Scholars make their work available in preprint servers for a variety of reasons, including (but certainly not limited) to stake their claim on an important finding so as not to get scooped during the editing and review process, to share work with communities who may not have access to expensive literature, and to get feedback at early stages of the review process. 

The Open Access Directory at Simmons University maintains an extensive list of Disciplinary Repositories. The University of Oregon Libraries supports a number of open access projects, including ArXiv and PsyArXiv.