City Tech Open Access Advocates: Maura Smale, Library

This year’s International Open Access Week theme is Open Access in Action. Accordingly, we are profiling City Tech faculty who have made taken the time to repeatedly contribute their work to Academic Works, our institutional repository. Academic Works helps increase the impact of your scholarship but did you know that Open Access is a social good? When your scholarship is open access, everyone, from your students to scholars in less developed countries, can read and use your work!
Wrapping up Open Access Week 2016, our final profile is Maura Smale, Chair, Library.
How was your experience contributing to Academic Works?
Setting up an account and uploading my articles to Academic Works has been easy. I appreciate that I can link from my professional website to Academic Works without fear that my articles will disappear over time, since preservation is a core part of the mission of Academic Works.
Any other comments about Academic Works or Open Access?
Having my articles in Academic Works came in handy when I was preparing my application for promotion last year. The download statistics that the repository provides offer an indication of the impact of my scholarly work, and I was pleased to include them in my PARSE along with citation counts.