Looking for a New Year's Resolution? Try This Simple Step to Preserve your Publications and Help to Increase your Citations

Did you know that in the vast majority of cases, when you contract with a publisher to publish your article in a specific journal, the publisher then holds the copyright to the published article?

This means that you, the author, have no rights over the published article, and can only access it if you or your institution have a subscription to the journal. Furthermore, the publisher is under no obligation to preserve your article in the long term.

What can you do?

First, you should always keep the Author's Final Version of your article. This is the final version, following the review process, that you send to the publisher, i.e. the last version before the publisher's formatting etc. is applied.

Secondly, deposit the Author's Final Version in Arrow@DIT, DIT's Institutional Repository. Most publishers will allow you to "self-archive" the Author's Final Version in Arrow, as long as you provide the citation to the published version. Any item that you submit to Arrow is kept in a holding area until library staff have verified that the publisher's policy permits deposit of the Author's Final Version in Arrow.

Arrow is an archive of DIT's research, so uploading your publications to Arrow ensures their preservation.

There's also some evidence that depositing publications in institutional repositories can help to increase their citations - another reason to make sure that you've deposited your work in Arrow!

Changes to Harvard Business Review access via Business Source Complete

We have electronic access to Harvard Business Review all the way back to the first issue in 1922 (about 13,000 articles and counting) via Business Source Complete, an EBSCO database. This access has always allowed users to print and/or save all of the articles, as well as to read them on screen.

Since August, the Harvard Business Review is now restricting access via EBSCO’s Business Source databases for 500 of its articles to read-only access. This means Business Source Complete users can still access and read those 500 articles on-screen, but they will no longer be able to either print or save them.

The remaining 12,500 (approx.) Harvard Business Review articles can still be saved and printed from Business Source Complete.

The key things to note are:

1. The vast majority of Harvard Business Review articles can still be saved and printed out from Business Source Complete. 
2.  The 500 articles that can no longer be saved or printed out can still be accessed and read on-screen.
3. Aungier St library also has a print subscription to the Harvard Business Review, so students and staff can still photocopy an article that cannot be printed out (subject to the terms of DIT’s Irish Copyright Licence Agreement).