With Scholars Junction, you can ensure your work is publicly available while not signing away all of your rights to it.
Read on to learn more about how permissions and licensing work in Scholars Junction.
When you deposit your work in Scholars Junction, you retain the copyright to it. That means you can submit it to other open access repositories, update or remix it, share it anywhere - whatever you want!
We will clearly identify you as the author or owner of your submission. You'll receive regular email updates on your work's impact, including item views, downloads, and citations.
When you make your deposit, you grant MSU the following rights. These rights are perpetual (they last as long as we hold the item); irrevocable (you cannot terminate them); and non-exclusive (you can still grant the same rights to another repository).
Along with the rights you grant to MSU, you need to define the rights you grant to Scholars Junction users. Scholars Junction is optimized to provide immediate full access to submitted work, but we can work with you to apply appropriate access restrictions when necessary.
We encourage you to apply a Creative Commons license to your submission - we prefer the CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 license (Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International). This license allows users to download, share, and adapt your work for noncommercial purposes (including their own research), as long as they give you credit, note what changes they made, and distribute the result under the same CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 license.
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Sometimes you need to restrict public access for a period of time. We can work with you to customize the level of access your work requires.
