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Introduction to YorkSpace
YorkSpace is an open access repository that enables York community members to disseminate and preserve their scholarly works in an institutional context. Each submission includes a digital copy of your scholarly work that can be made available to York and the global scholarly community permanently, without access restrictions.
Mandate
The purpose of YorkSpace is to disseminate open access scholarship produced by York faculty, students, and staff, as well as York affiliated community members. YorkSpace is designed to be a permanent site of preservation, and as such, does not host files created for temporary purposes (i.e., temporary questions/files for course examination, meeting agendas, etc.). YorkSpace supports the York University Senate Policy on Open Access by acting as an open access repository of works created by York University community members.
Benefits of YorkSpace
- Increased visibility: YorkSpace is indexed by major search engines, such as Google and Google Scholar, which increase the discoverability of your work.
- Reliable links: YorkSpace assigns permanent URLs known as Handles to each item. These unique links will never change and will provide a stable location for your work.
- Support for various digital objects: YorkSpace accepts multiple file formats such as text, audio, video, and more. Please review our Accepted File Types section of the YorkSpace Procedures webpage for more information on best practices.
- Authors Retain Copyright: York University Libraries requires authors to agree to the YorkSpace Non-Exclusive Distribution Licence prior to submitting work on YorkSpace. Under this agreement, authors retain copyright of their work.
This webpage, originally created by Priscilla Carmini and Stephanie Quail, has been updated and maintained by Jack Leong. It is available under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence.