CUNY Libraries may be physically closed, but they are open online. Open scholarship and licensed e-resources support zero-cost learning for CUNY students.
Librarians, students, and readers want CUNY researchers to post scholarship in CUNY Academic Works. It's perfectly legal and essential to establish wide readership, even to academics in elite institutions when libraries are closed, e-resource budgets are slashed, and interlibrary loan is limited.
Publishers commonly allow articles to be posted in institutional or disciplinary repositories after 12 - 18 month embargoes. Public search engines (especially scholar.google.com) rank repository matches high in results. Readers find open work easily. They use it for teaching and cite it more often than library-licensed only works.
Articles, book chapters, dissertations, pre-prints, slides, syllabi, and teaching materials are all welcome in CUNY Academic Works.
CUNY scholars will be more widely read for greater impact if their published work is openly available online. It's perfectly legal to post most published academic work in CUNY's public access institutional repository, Academic Works.
Need help? Contact AcademicWorks@cuny.edu or a campus Academic Works Coordinator.
