There are many reasons you may opt to share your work, including:
However, publisher agreements may limit the ways in which you can share your work. The resources below can help you understand ways that you can share your work and publisher options that allow you to do so.
Framingham State University maintains a digital repository where faculty, staff and students can share their work. FSU Digital Repository was established to provide open, online access to the products of the University's research and scholarship, to preserve these works for future generations, to promote new models of scholarly communication, and to help deepen community understanding of the value of higher education.
FSU Digital Repository accepts pre-prints, post-prints, full-text manuscripts, citations, multimedia, image files, sound clips, data sets and other material. The term pre-print refers to the version of the paper before peer review and the term post-print refers to the version of the paper after peer review but before the journal publication.
The Creative Commons copyright licenses and tools forge a balance inside the traditional “all rights reserved” setting that copyright law creates. Our tools give everyone from individual creators to large companies and institutions a simple, standardized way to grant copyright permissions to their creative work. The combination of our tools and our users is a vast and growing digital commons, a pool of content that can be copied, distributed, edited, remixed, and built upon, all within the boundaries of copyright law.
Creative Commons provides a useful overview of things to know before applying one of their licenses to your work, available here. The video below explains the different types of Creative Commons licenses.
No matter how you choose to share your work, maximizing your exposure takes time. Harvard faculty Alyssa Goodman, Gary King, and Mikolaj Jan Piskorski address ways in which academics can maximize online exposure for themselves and their scholarly work in this panel discussion.