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Just in case you’d like to know a little more about archiving your work, here are some resources.

If you want to know what your publisher’s usual policies about self-archiving are, you can go to the SHERPA/RoMEO Publisher Copyright Policies & Self-Archiving Web site and search by publisher or journal title. This website makes clear whether the publisher allows you to archive a pre-print, post-print, or publisher’s .pdf.

You might want to talk to Janet Webster (janet [dot] webster [at] oregonstate [dot] edu, 541-867-0108) about archiving your work. It doesn’t have to be that hard.

If the process of archiving your work seems a bit overwhelming, the OSU Libraries will be glad to help you. You might consider placing your work in our digital repository, Scholars Archive@OSU . And you don’t have to be directly affiliated with OSU to be able to contribute, ScholarsArchive@OSU is Oregon State University's digital service for gathering, indexing, making available and storing the scholarly work of the Oregon State University community. It also includes materials from outside the institution in support of the university's land, sun, sea and space grant missions and other research interests.

To have the library deposit your scholarly material for you:
Ask your research librarian or Sue Kunda (sue [dot] kunda [at] oregonstate [dot] edu, 541-737-7262) to have a collection created for your unit and/or for yourself. For an example of a collection, see University Libraries collection of Papers, Articles and Conference Proceedings.
Send your scholarly materials as email attachments or on a CD to Sue Kunda at the Valley Libraryor contact your research librarian to discuss options for submitting your research.
The library will find out whether the research can be legally deposited in ScholarsArchive@OSU, submit your research to ScholarsArchive@OSU, and notify you when it is available.

Spring term 2010 OSU Libraries began acquiring streaming videos for use by faculty and students. Streaming videos can be viewed anywhere an OSU patron can access the Web. The library has purchased a small selection of streaming videos from Films for Humanities and Sciences, an educational video company. These include Cappuccino Trail: The Global Economy in a Cup, Explaining Globalization, Get 1.1 Billion's Attention: Growing Consumerism in India, and Sports Shoe Wars: Battle of the Giants in China. Look for these and future purchases on the What's New - Multimedia Collection page.

The MobileLib Team is happy to announce the release of The Book Genie
Website.

The Book Genie gives a randomly selected recommendation from Oregon State
University's Valley Library based on your subject of interest.

Visit the Website on you mobile device, iPad or desktop:

http://genie.library.oregonstate.edu/

It's a fun way to be introduced to new books.

Happy Reading!

There are a lot of good reasons to archive your works. You’re proud of them; you want them to be permanently available. You may want others to be able to access your writings free of charge. Or perhaps you know that open-access works tend to be cited more often, and can have higher “impact factors.” Whatever your reasons, you decide that you want to archive.

The moment of truth is when you sign the copyright transfer agreement with the publisher.

If your publisher doesn’t usually let its authors do what you want to do, you can ask the publisher to allow you to modify the copyright agreement. The OSU Libraries encourage authors to use the SPARC Author Addendum to Publication Agreement, which supports archiving in non-commercial repositories and permits subsequent non-commercial use of the work.

Contact janet [dot] webster [at] oregonstate [dot] edu (Janet Webster) for more information.