Carnegie Mellon University Libraries strongly encourages faculty and staff to publish in open access venues and deposit a version of their research outputs into KiltHub. Such outputs could include conference posters or proceedings; articles, books or chapters; datasets; code; lesson plans, teaching materials, and syllabi; images and multimedia, and more (figshare, the software underlying Kilthub, can accept thousands of different file types.) Making research outputs publicly available via KiltHub democratizes access and increases discovery, use, and possible citations of your work. If a relevant disciplinary repository exists, you are welcome to deposit your work both in KiltHub and other venues as appropriate and permitted by any agreement you may have signed with a publisher.
You are encouraged to review the documentation available on the Libraries website for information about best practices in data management, open access, copyright, and scholarly communications so that you can use them in your own work and assist researchers and students with theirs.
Links:
- KiltHub: https://kilthub.cmu.edu/
- KiltHub Documentation https://guides.library.cmu.edu/kilthub
- Open Access information https://www.library.cmu.edu/services/open-access
- Publish open access
- OA Agreements: https://guides.library.cmu.edu/openaccessagreements
- APC Fund: https://guides.library.cmu.edu/apcfund
- Publish open access
- Scholarly Communications guide: https://guides.library.cmu.edu/scholcomm
- Research Data Management https://guides.library.cmu.edu/researchdatamanagement
Best practices for ongoing data and for documenting, archiving, and sharing datasets and all other outputs of research (e.g. code, images, recordings). - Check journal publisher copyright and open access archiving policies on Sherpa
For questions or guidance please contact the Open Knowledge Librarian (Emily Bongiovanni), IR Manager (Katie Behrman) or the Research Data Services Librarian (Alfredo González-Espinoza).
Last updated:
09/12/2024