The State University of New York now has a repository for the peer reviewed publications of our scholars, called SOAR (SUNY Open Access Repository.)
SUNY Empire has a "community" within SOAR - this means that if you contribute your works, they will be findable by anyone searching SOAR as a whole, but they can also be found together with contributions from other SUNY Empire scholars.
You must own the copyright of any work that you want to submit to the repository, or have permission from the journal that owns the copyright. This means that instructors may not submit student work without their specific written consent.
By default, putting your work in the repository does absolutely nothing to the copyright status of the work. However, if you own the copyright, you may choose to put the work under a Creative Commons license. So by default, the public is entitled to access your work for free, but they may not make copies or derivative works. But if you use a Creative Commons license, that will expand the rights available to the public according to the terms of the license.
At the present, SOAR is only accepting dissertations, theses, and capstones from students, and both creative works and published, scholarly works from faculty, staff, and students.
Text (in the form of accessible/readable PDFs) is stored in the repository. Multimedia content (which must be fully accessible) has an item record in the repository and links to the full content in Learnscape.
Please email sarah.morehouse@sunyempire.edu if you have content that you want to submit to the repository.
You do not need to be certain that you have permission to put it into a repository from your publisher. I will double-check that for you and get back to you about whether I need the final version of the article or the pre-print. All you need to do to start is give me the title of your work, title of the journal, and publication year.
If you have a co-author, please make sure that they consent to having the work in the repository. There is no legal requirement for them to consent, since putting it in the repository doesn't affect copyright, but it is good collegial practice.
If I find minor accessibility problems (for example, things that would make it impossible for a person using a screenreader to read your article) I will fix them, but I won't alter your content. If I find major accessibility problems that I can't fix without spending a lot of time or altering the way your content is presented, I may have to postpone submitting your content until you can fix them.
You do not need to add metadata or anything. The SUNY Library Services librarians take care of the actual process of uploading it and making it discoverable.
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