OpenEmory launches new repository, making research more accessible for all

An online repository of Emory University researchers’ work recently got a makeover with a new site that’s more accessible, easier to use, and quicker to load. OpenEmory is a digital repository where Emory researchers can deposit their published journal articles, book chapters, and even entire books (as publishers’ policies allow). Users can also share unpublished Read More …

The New OpenEmory: New Look, Same Mission

Sharing the results of Emory research with the world is paramount to Emory’s mission to create, preserve, teach, and apply knowledge in the service of humanity. As part of this commitment to open access to information, Emory built its institutional repository, OpenEmory, in 2012. Over the years, the repository has gathered research from Emory faculty Read More …

New deposit process for OpenEmory

Welcome to the new OpenEmory! OpenEmory is an open access repository of Emory faculty scholarly works and a service of Emory Libraries. It was created in response to the Emory Open Access Policy passed by Faculty Council in March 2011. The scope of OpenEmory at its 2012 launch was Emory faculty-authored articles. In 2016, it Read More …

Emory Marks a Decade of Open Access and OpenEmory Celebrates 20,000 Total Works

by Jody Bailey On March 15, 2011, the Emory faculty passed an open access policy, joining a growing number of institutions making a commitment to share the results of their faculty research with audiences across the world. Through the policy, all Emory faculty members proactively grant permission to the university “to capture and make available Read More …

Sharing your research despite the ResearchGate dilemma

Over the course of this month, we’ve seen a good deal of news around sharing scholarly research on the ResearchGate platform. October 6, 2017 A new alliance of academic publishers formed the Coalition for Responsible Sharing, in order to combat the unauthorized distribution of published articles. Two of the Coalition’s members, Elsevier and the American Read More …