Presentations in KU ScholarWorks

KU ScholarWorks (KUSW) is the institutional repository of the University of Kansas. It contains scholarly work produced by KU students, faculty and staff, as well as departmental research publications.

KU faculty, staff and students who add their scholarly work to ScholarWorks increase their visibility and impact by making their scholarship available to a worldwide audience, as well as providing for long-term preservation of the materials.

If you have questions about adding presentations to KU ScholarWorks, please contact Marianne Reed, Digital Publishing & Repository Manager at mreed@ku.edu.

What can be deposited?

Here are examples of materials from presentations that can be added to ScholarWorks:

• Slides
• Video or audio recordings of presentations
• Posters
• Research papers given at a conference that won’t be published elsewhere

Adding Presentations to ScholarWorks

Once you've given your presentation and have decided that you want to share it in ScholarWorks, we can help.

1. KU faculty, staff or students that want to share their presentations in KU ScholarWorks should notify Marianne Reed, Digital Publishing& Repository Manager at mreed@ku.edu.
2. If the author is a student, they will need to fill out the KUSW Student Release Form and returns it to the department or to us; The work cannot be deposited in ScholarWorks unless we have the signed form.
3. We ask the author to send us the following information about the work:
   - Title
   - Author
   - ORCID, optional, but recommended
   - Abstract
   - 3-5 keywords
   - For conference presentations: Date, location, & name of the conference
   - It is optional, but if a Creative Commons license is desired, choose the license you want to use from the Creative Commons Licenses section below:
   
4. Once the work and any release forms are received, the work is deposited in ScholarWorks and the permanent URL is sent to the author.

Creative Commons Licenses (Optional)

Creative Commons (CC) is a non-profit organization devoted to expanding the range of creative works available for others to legally share and use through copyright licenses, known as Creative Commons licenses. These licenses allow creators/authors to let their readers know how they can use the works without having to ask for permission from the author. By choosing one of the licenses below, you are expressing permission for your work to be shared and re-used, subject to the limitations of the license selected.

For more information about Creative Commons licenses, please see the About CC Licenses.

If you choose to share your work under a Creative Commons license, read the following information and select a license.

• Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY); This license lets others distribute, remix, adapt, and build upon your work, even commercially, as long as they credit you for the original creation.
• Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial (CC-BY-NC); This license lets others remix, adapt, and build upon your work non-commercially.
• Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial NoDerivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND); This license is the most restrictive of the six main licenses, only allowing others to download your works and share them with others as long as they credit you, but they can’t change them in any way or use them commercially.>
• Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike (CC-BY-SA); This license lets others remix, adapt, and build upon your work even for commercial purposes, as long as they credit you and license their new creations under the identical terms. All new works based on yours will carry the same license.
• Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial ShareAlike (CC-BY-NC-SA); This license lets others remix, adapt, and build upon your work non-commercially, as long as they credit you and license their new creations under the identical terms.
• Creative Commons Attribution NoDerivatives (CC-BY-ND); This license lets others reuse the work for any purpose, including commercially; however, it cannot be shared with others in adapted form, and credit must be provided to you.

Visibility

• Google and Google Scholar: The developers of DSpace--the software package behind KU ScholarWorks--have worked closely with Google to ensure that the works in those systems are easily found by Google and Google Scholar.
• Permanent Links:  All items in KU ScholarWorks are assigned URLs that will never change and can be used whenever the work is cited.
• ORCIDs:  KU ScholarWorks supports the use of Open Researcher and Contributor IDs (ORCIDs). An ORCID gives each researcher a unique identifier that supports connections between the author and their work.  Researcher identifiers like ORCIDs are used by many systems in the research ecosystem, including many granting agencies, where ORCIDs are used by applicants to automatically populate lists of publications.  
• Article Metrics:  Articles in KU ScholarWorks display Altmetric scores that show visibility and impact of the research from online forums, including news outlets, policy documents, blogs, Twitter, readers on Mendelay, etc.
• Open Access:  KU ScholarWorks strives to provide open and public access to all content in the repository.  For exceptions, see Delayed Access (Embargoes), below.
• OAI-PMH:  KU ScholarWorks makes article metadata available to other systems for harvesting, including web crawlers such as DuckDuckGo, Google and Bing, by adhering to standards that meet the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH).

Withdrawal of Content

Items may be withdrawn from KUSW at the request of the author, at the direction of the Provost or General Counsel, or by legal order. Withdrawn items will be removed from all public access, but will be retained in the repository. Withdrawal requests should be directed to Marianne Reed, Digital Publishing& Repository Manager at mreed@ku.edu.

Copyright

Copyright and Non-Exclusive License:  Items in KU ScholarWorks remain the property of the copyright holder(s) and any rights held by the copyright holder (whether the author or publisher) before depositing the work in KU ScholarWorks remain unchanged by the non-exclusive license granted to KU ScholarWorks to distribute the works. 

Using materials in KU ScholarWorks:  Linking to materials in ScholarWorks is strongly encouraged.  For uses beyond Fair Use, permission from the copyright holder, as well as full attribution, will be required.  Where indicated, some works may have Creative Commons Licenses that specify permissions.

Resources from KU Libraries

Find out more about KU ScholarWorks, its policies, and the types of materials you can deposit:

• About KU ScholarWorks