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 Academic Works: maintained by CUNY Libraries to provide public, open access to the research, scholarship, and creative, and pedagogical work of the City University of New York.
Digital Commons Network: browse or search across all institutional repositories hosted by bepress Digital Commons
OpenDOAR: find the world's scholarly repositories by institution or by discipline
AgriXiv: preprints for agriculture and allied sciences
arXiv: distribution service and open-access archive for articles in physics, mathematics, computer science, quantitative biology, quantitative finance, statistics, electrical engineering and systems science, and economics.
BioArXiv: online archive and distribution service for unpublished preprints in the life sciences, operated by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
BodoArXiv: open repository for medieval studies
CORE: a nonprofit repository collecting open access humanities research sponsored by the Modern Language Association
EarthArXiv: preprint service for the earth sciences
EcoEvoRxiv: preprint service for ecology, evolution, and conservation
ECSarXiv: preprint service for electrochemistry and solid state science and technology
EdArXiv: preprint server for the research in education
engrXiv: open archive of engineering
LawArXiv Papers: openly available legal scholarship
MediArXiv: open archive for media, film, and communication studies
MindRxiv: open archive for research on mind and contemplative practices
NutriXiv: preprint service for the nutritional sciences
PaleorXiv Papers: preprint archive for Paleontology
PsyArXiv Preprints: preprint service for the psychological sciences, maintained by The Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science
PubMed Central: full-text archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature at the U.S. National Institutes of Health's National Library of Medicine (NIH/NLM)
SocArXiv Papers: open archive of the social sciences
SportRxiv: open access subject repository for sport, exercise, performance, and health research
Social Science Research Network: an eLibrary that provides access to papers from researchers in more than 50 disciplines
Directory of Open Access Journals: indexes the quality of open access, peer-reviewed journals
Directory of Open Access Books: metadata provided by academic publishers improves discoverability
National Emergency Library: 1.4 million titles, many 20th century, scanned in the Internet Archive. Simultaneous borrowing allowed during the pandemic.
Open Library: a project of the Internet Archive, the Open Library provides access to many public domain and out-of-print books
Open Research Library: browse and search over 20,000 books from academic publishers
To see if a specific work (especially an article) is openly available, use one of these browser extensions.
Unpaywall covers over 25,000,000 open access articles from 50,000 publishers. Install the extension from https://unpaywall.org/, then, when you run into a paywall, use Unpaywall to search for an open version.
OA Button is a Firefox extension that identifies open access versions of research articles. If an open version of an article cannot be found, log-in to send an author that one be made available.
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.
Instructions at guides.cuny.edu/CUNYAcademicWorks. Need help? Contact AcademicWorks@cuny.edu or a campus Academic Works Coordinator.
