Self-archiving

Depositing your work in an institutional repository is mandated by many public funding bodies (e.g., ARC, NHMRC). ResearchGate and Academia.edu will not meet funder’s requirements.

It’s important that the publisher’s agreement permits you to legally deposit a version of your work in an open access venue such as La Trobe’s repository, OPAL or a subject repository.

Check the publisher’s agreement before you deposit or self-archive your work. You can find publishers’ self-archiving policies on the journal’s website and the Sherpa/Romeo database (this advice is embedded in OPAL so you can check when you upload).

 Publishers use the following names for the different versions of manuscripts. It’s important that you know the difference between them so you understand your rights when signing and complying with an agreement.

                                     diagram by Thomas Shafee CC-BY 4.0

The author-accepted manuscript is the document which you send to the publisher with required changes which is accepted for publication.  It has no commercial publication design or detail which we would see in the published version.  See the example below.