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AUB ScholarWorks: Why Deposit your Work

AUB ScholarWorks is the institutional repository of the Amerian University of Beirut. It showcases the research, scholarly and creative output of AUB's community.

 

Why Deposit Content in Scholarworks?

 

Visibility and Discoverability

  • Openly accessible scholarly work and research is read and cited more often than work not freely available on the web.
  • ScholarWorks optimizes its content to engine crawlers (Google, Bing, Yahoo, Google Scholar) resulting in higher research retrieval, networking and citation.
  • Having AUB scholarly output in one platform improves the visibility of AUB research, collaboration and networking among AUB community and beyond.

Self-archiving

Depending on the publisher policies, access to your work could be limited, and there is a risk of losing access to your work if the publisher become defunct. Self-archiving in the University repository opens other stable avenues of access for your work and for long term documentation and preservation of your scholarly work.

Negotiate your Authors' Rights with the Publisher

It is worth to mention that as the author, you must always negotiate your rights with the publisher and stress on getting a permission to publish in an institutional repository whenever possible for self archiving and wider dissemination.

Persistent Identifier

ScholarWorks gives to every submitted material a persistent identifier, or permanent link URl that do not change—ensuring links to your submitted material always work. By depositing their work to ScholarwWorks researchers will immediately get a stable URI for their their publications or grey literature.

 

Managing Copyrights

  
BY: credit must be given to the creator.
NC: Only noncommercial uses of the work are permitted.
ND: No derivatives or adaptations of the work are permitted

Open Access is the default status of a submission. Nevertheless, you can fill a waiver asking for an embargo period before your submission becomes accessible. Submission to the repository are made available under the terms of the Creative commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative, unless the submitter chooses another CC license.

 

Training and Guidance

ScholarWorks staff at the University Libraries shall assist authors and the authorized submission staff in all the process of content submission.

For all needed assistance contact Mirna Kalash <mk259@aub.edu.lb>