OA at Hamilton
What Hamilton Faculty Can Do
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Secure your rights as an author.
You are the copyright holder of any work you create unless and until you transfer the copyright to someone else in a signed agreement. Before signing anything transferring your rights to another party, explore your options.
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Investigate the copyright and self-archiving policies for journals to which you submit articles.
Most publishers and journals give authors permission to make at least some version of their articles freely available through self-archiving.
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Learn how you can make your own work open access.
Finding a suitable OA journal or repository for your work may not be as daunting as you think. There are a number of alternative paths to sharing your scholarship.
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Talk to your colleagues at institutions with open access policies.
More than 90 funding agencies and 200 colleges and universities have adopted open access policies, including a number of Hamilton's peer institutions. Since 2013, faculty at Wellesley, Amherst, and Bryn Mawr have passed open access resolutions.
