Information for ScholarWorks Contributors

Interested in contributing to ScholarWorks? There are two ways you can go about it:

1. Let’s have a conversation: Provide us general information about the material you’d like to contribute and we’ll get back to you.
2. We’ll do it for you: If you have a number of scholarly articles or monographs to contribute, provide us with a list of citations. We’ll investigate publishers’ policies to see what content can be added to ScholarWorks.

Keep in mind…

• ScholarWorks collects and preserves the intellectual and cultural capital of the California State University. All items must have been produced at least in part at Fresno State.
• You must have the legal right to submit material. This means you must hold the copyright and/or you must have permission from all copyright holders. We will contact you for your signature on a content use agreement as part of the process.
• If you are submitting a scholarly article, check your publisher’s policy on self-archiving in institutional repositories. Some publishers allow you to submit the final published version. Others allow you to submit other versions, such as pre-prints (your manuscript as submitted) or post-prints (your accepted manuscript after it has been through peer review, but without the publisher’s layout and formatting).
• If you are the copyright holder, you have the option to assign a Creative Commons license to your content. Creative Commons, or “some rights reserved” licenses, are a way you can give permission to others to redistribute and re-use your work under certain conditions. This is optional, you are not required to assign a Creative Commons license.

Learn more by reading the ScholarWorks Overview.