Open and Share Your Scholarship

Share your scholarship freely and globally by depositing it in Harvard’s open access, institutional repository, DASH (Digital Access to Scholarship at Harvard). 

Works in DASH receive persistent URLs, are comprehensively indexed by search engines, reach academic and non-academic readers who may not have access to the original publications, and are preserved by Harvard Library. 

Depositing authors can manage their own DASH Profile page, taking advantage of several integrations with other scholarly communications systems (like ORCID), and read user-submitted stories reacting to their works.

Open access encompasses a wide variety of scholarly activities across all research disciplines and modes of publishing. 

• Learn more about open access publishing, open access policies, and rights-retention strategies. 
• Get guidance on choosing the right venue for your scholarship and making informed decisions about sharing your work. 
• Review your coverage, if applicable, under the Harvard Open Access Policies and Federal Agency Public Access Policies.
• Sign up for the Individual Open Access License, if you are not already covered by one of the Harvard Open Access Policies.

We can help you establish your ORCID iD, a free and unique persistent identifier that distinguishes you from other researchers. Your ORCID iD establishes a profile you control and can populate with information defining who you are, as well as your research, publications, affiliations, awards, and grants. 

We can also help you link your ORCID iD to Harvard through Harvard ORCID Connect, enabling internal scholarly and administrative systems at the university to access and update your public and trusted ORCID data. 

Author-publisher agreements govern the terms under which scholarship is published and made available. Learn how to read your agreement, understand your rights and obligations and those of the publisher, and how you can negotiate to retain key rights to reuse and share your work. 

Get guidance on policy development, implementing open licenses, investigating open source infrastructure and journal management systems, and how to adhere to best practices in scholarly publishing. Available to editors of open access journals and editions.

The Harvard Library Open Journals Program provides Harvard editors with guidance, resources, and seed funding for establishing and maintaining high-quality open access journals. We aim to advance the equitable and sustainable publication of journals at no cost to readers seeking access and at no cost to authors seeking to publish. HOJP complements Harvard Library’s additional efforts to support no-fee (or "diamond") open access publishing as part of our commitment to advancing open knowledge.

Learn about HOJP.

Open Access Sponsorships are financial contributions provided by Harvard Library, with guidance from Open Scholarship and Research Data Services, in support of qualifying open access initiatives. Reflecting our collective aim of advancing open knowledge, these initiatives do not charge authors, readers, or users any fees and comply with industry-supported best practices and standards. 

Candidates for sponsorship represent opportunities for smaller-dollar funding of tools and resources, infrastructure, and journals or collections not already included in traditional collections workflows and not already offered by major publishers through existing library-side arrangements. Requests must originate from the publisher, proprietor/owner, Editor-in-Chief or Board Member acting in the appropriate capacity.

Open Access Sponsorships do not cover individual requests for funding from authors, readers, or end users.