Scholarly Publishing

Library of the Health Sciences

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Make your work accessible to anyone anywhere

UND has its own institutional repository, The Scholarly Commons, which is a database containing intellectual works created by UND faculty, staff, and students. This database, the Scholarly Commons, is a website that is publicly accessible, or open access, meaning that anyone can access, read, and download the pdfs within it.

Submission via the School of Medicine's Library Resources

You can submit your work to be uploaded to the Scholarly Commons via the SMHS Library using this online submission form. Library Resources uploads works created within the School of Medicine and Health Sciences on behalf of our students and employees. Contact Devon Olson, Research and Education Librarian for more information about uploading multiple files at once, or the process and timelines for uploading your work to the Scholarly Commons.

Submission via the Chester Fritz Library

You can submit your work to be uploaded to the Scholarly Commons via the Chester Fritz library using this online submission form. Contact Zeineb Yousif, the Chester Fritz Digital Initiatives Librarian, about this process and the current timeline for submissions to be uploaded. Also see CFL's Scholarly Commons FAQ page for more information.

 

Some considerations when uploading your work to the commons:

  • We recommend that you place a Creative Commons license on anything you upload to the Scholarly Commons to communicate to your readers how you'd like your work to be re-used. See the tabs at left for more info on Creative Commons licenses.
  • Consider including a forwarding email somewhere on the pdf of your work so that interested readers can contact you.
  • Be sure that you own your work. If you have published your work elsewhere, it is possible you no longer have the right to publish that work again in another place like UND's Scholarly Commons. Most publishers do allow pre-prints or rough drafts of work they publish to be posted on institutional repositories, and you can check most journal's policies about posting pre-prints on a database called SHERPA/RoMEO.

Can you still publish your work in a journal after uploading your work to the commons?

  • Most publishers do allow pre-prints of work they publish to be posted on institutional repositories, and you can check most journal's policies about posting pre-prints on a database called SHERPA/RoMEO.
  • Whether uploading a poster to the commons will impact your ability to later publish an article on that same research will depend on that specific journal's policies. Again, you can check most journal's policies about posting pre-prints on a database called SHERPA/RoMEO.
    • UND uses what's called a "non-exclusive distribution license", meaning UND gets to distribute your work, but retains no other rights over it (not the exclusive publisher, like a journal would be). See the UND Scholarly Commons FAQ for more information.
    • Journal policies on exclusive distribution of research articles grew out of a historical convention called the "Ingelfinger Rule", created in 1969 by New England Journal of Medicine Editor Franz Ingelfinger, which decreed that articles submitted to the journal could not be published anywhere else.
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