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Scholarly Communication

Scholarly communication is the system through which research and other scholarly writings are created, evaluated for quality, disseminated to the scholarly community, and preserved for future use (ACRL, 1996-2021).

Repositories & Self-Archiving

Open Access Repositories

 

 

Making scholarly output accessible to other scholars and
researchers is an important part of the scholarly communication 
lifecycle.  Including scholarly output in Institutional repositories
is one way to make is accessible to other researchers and
scholars as well as assure that is is archived in some way.

Open access repositories are one venue for authors to
self-archive their work.

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Widener's Institutional Repository

Other Open Access Institutional Repositories

This is not an exhaustive list.  You can find more open access institutional repositories by googling the name of the institutions and "repository" or by searching the Registry of Open Access Repositories or OpenDOAR (the Directory of Open Access Repositories).