Submitting Your Work to Digital Collections

By including your work in the OHSU Digital Collections, you can establish an online professional presence and share your work with potential audiences, such as employers, collaborators, or the public.

What features are available?

• ORCID iDs: This provides a persistent digital identity that connects you to your work, funding, and affiliations throughout your career, making it easier to track and acknowledge your academic achievements.
• DOI Minting:  Each work receives a Digital Object Identifier (DOI), which allows others to easily cite your work.
• Access control: This feature enables you to determine the access level of your work, whether it is Open, Restricted, or Under Embargo.
• Version control: This facilitates the management of changes to your document over time, allowing you to track, review, and revert to previous versions when necessary.
• Sophisticated searching & filtering: Your work will be automatically organized by school, department, academic program, and degree type as soon as your submission is accepted.

By depositing materials into the OHSU Digital Collections, authors ensure the following:

• You are the sole author of the work, or you have permission from co-authors to submit the work
• Submitted materials do not infringe upon the copyrights or intellectual property rights of others
  • NOTE: if your work was created as part of your duties at OHSU and it might be of commercial value, please contact OHSU Technology Transfer before submission. Please see OHSU's policies around intellectual property for more information.
• You have been given permission to include the names of any other persons or organizations who contributed to or aided with the creation of the work (I.e., technical and/or writing assistance). For example: Academic Advisor, Committee Member, Editor, Mentor, PI, etc..
• Submitted materials do not violate privacy rights, laws, or other agreements
• Necessary right of review has been performed if materials were sponsored or supported by agencies or institutions external to OHSU
• Any restricted, confidential, or potentially defamatory content has been appropriately redacted.

The OHSU Library allows authors to retain non-exclusive distribution rights for their work. This means authors can publish their work elsewhere even after it is available on the OHSU Digital Collections platform.

Authors agree to grant the OHSU Library the following non-exclusive, royalty-free, perpetual, and worldwide rights and licenses:

1. To publicly display, reproduce, and disseminate materials, in whole or in part.
2. To create derivative works based on the materials as needed for the protection, preservation, and storage of these materials. This includes activities such as format migration and other future methods of material synthesis, aimed at ensuring continued public access to the materials.

Please note that submitting a work to the repository does not transfer ownership of the work's copyright.