Open Access: How you can Deposit and Preserve Your Publication in the Brown Digital Repository and Share it Globally

Brown’s mission statement calls on its scholars to communicate knowledge to the world, but many parts of the world cannot afford the high prices that journal publishers charge to read an academic article. On the bright side, many journals do allow their authors to retain the rights to deposit and publicly share a version of their publication in their institution’s repository, called “Green Open Access”. Come learn how to determine what you are permitted by the publisher to do with your work and when, as well as learn how to deposit your publications in Brown’s institutional repository, the BDR.