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Source: http://www.lib.washington.edu/scholpub/options/deposit

Deposit Your Work in Open Access Repositories

An Open Access Repository or archive preserves and makes its content freely
and openly available online.  Why consider depositing your work in an Open
Access Repository?  Due to the economics of journal publishing, libraries
are reducing the number of journals they subscribe to.  In the past the UW
Libraries would likely have purchased subscriptions to the journals in which
you prefer to publish and would have preserved those journals in paper
copy.  Now, however, most academic journal access is digital, and
libraries typically license rather than purchase access to journal content,
which remains under the control of the publisher.  This means that if the
UW Libraries can no longer afford to pay the annual subscription cost, we may
be left with no retrospective access at all to some important journals in which
your work is published.  Other libraries all over the world are in much
this same situation.



Some journals allow you to deposit a copy of your published work in an Open
Access Repository, others may require that you sign an Author Addendum
enabling you to do so.

• Open Access FAQ

Publish in journals that allow authors to deposit works into an Open Access
Repository:

• Negotiate
  an Author Addendum
  
  You may be able to attach an addendum to
  your publishing agreement to allow for depositing in open access
  repositories.
• SHERPA/RoMEO
  
  Find publishers that allow authors to deposit the publisher version or PDF
  of their article in an Institutional Repository, without fee or an
  embargo.

Include your work in the UW’s institutional repository, or in a
disciplinary repository:

• ResearchWorks Archives
  
  This is the University of Washington’s open access repository. The UW
  Libraries encourage contributions from all communities across the three
  campuses.
• SPARC
  Collected Repositories
  
  Find discipline based and other repositories using the resources listed on
  The Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC) web
  site.

Comply with open access mandates from funding agencies:

• PubMed Central
  
  The National Institutes of Health’s free digital archive of biomedical and
  life sciences journal literature. NIH Public Access Policy
  requires that any articles resulting from NIH-funded research be
  submitted to this open access repository.
• SHERPA-JULIET
  
  Use this resource to determine if your funder requires that you submit articles
  based on your funded research to an open access repository.

Comprehensive Lists of Repositories | SPARC