Your work may be finished, or you may be at a point where you just want other people to see it and comment on it. Where can you showcase yourself and your scholarship? This section covers making your work visible from three different perspectives: places you may want to publish your work directly, repositories that provide a permanent, visible home for your work, and options for managing your scholarly identity with a unique identifier that showcases your scholarship. Everything on this page is underpinned by the activity of the Open Access movement, which is dedicated to making scholarship visible and usable to the world.
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The York University Libraries has a hosting service for academic journals. York Digital Journals (YDJ) publications include "traditional" research journals and student-run publications. See a complete list of our hosted publications, or our detailed resource guide on how you can get started with YDJ.
Pressbooks is an open platform for digital self-publishing, often used for creating Open Education Resources and open textbooks. Recent examples include the Semester Abroad Student Manual and our guide to Doing Digital Humanities and Social Sciences in Your Classroom.
Scalar is a unique, born-digital platform for the creation of online publications. The platform encourages non-linear exploration of scholarly material, and features built-in visualization tools. See our guide to Digital Publishing with Scalar.
Omeka is an online platform for the curation and exhibition of online collections. It's ideally suited to showcasing digitized archival materials, and it integrates easily with the York University Digital Library.
PubPub is an open authoring and publishing platform. It can be used to publish material, but its real strength is its collaborative authoring power. Users can draft material in public (alone or with others, in real time), which invites open peer review, discussions, and feedback. Version control is built-in, and the platform lets you assign Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) to your work.
Repositories can be used to store, preserve and share scholarly material. York's repository platforms can be used to deposit your own scholarly work, preserve digitized materials, and serve as a means of sharing your research data.
YorkSpace is our institutional repository. If you are a registered graduate student or faculty member, you can use it to store permanent copies of your own research outputs (anything for which you hold the copyright), or pre-prints of articles that may be permitted by publishers' agreements. See our full guide on YorkSpace for detailed information.
York's Dataverse can be used to share and archive research data. Datasets in this repository are publicly available and have Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) assigned to serve as permanent links.
The York University Digital Library stored of digital objects (digitized books, photographs, films, videos, sound recordings, websites, posters etc.) that have either been digitized from York's collection, or have been acquired by by the Libraries or its research partners.
Public identity profiles help make your work visible, and help quantify your research impact. The information below outlines two easy things you can do in this area. For more information, see our primer on managing your research identifiers (PDF link) and our information on research metrics.
The Open Access movement advocates for the free, online availability of research outputs. Underpinned by the idea that publicly-funded research should be available to the public, this effort strives to ensure that human knowledge is preserved as a public good.
York instituted an Open Access Policy (PDF link) in 2019. The policy values author rights and academic freedom, but encourages York scholars to make their work available to the public and acknowledges that the requirement for "open" scholarly outputs are becoming a common condition for grant funding.
York University Libraries is committed to Open Access, and administers an Open Access Fund to assist with the costs associated with making materials open. As you work, consider: