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What is WesScholar?
Where do I find WesScholar?
How do I create my SelectedWorks page?
How do I Archive my published work?
How do I publish a peer-reviewed Journal?
How do I find out more?

What is WesScholar?

WesScholar is Wesleyan University’s digital repository system comprising three components:

• WesScholar’s institutional repository archives and preserves published works in perpetuity.
• SelectedWorks sites, WesScholar’s faculty scholar pages, enable faculty to share scholarship and biographical information.
• WesScholar’s journal publishing platform offers tools to publish online, peer-reviewed journals.

WesScholar utilizes Berkeley Electronic Press’s Digital Commons™ platform to capture, permanently preserve and distribute the scholarly output of Wesleyan faculty, students, and staff.

Where can I find WesScholar?

WesScholar’s home page is http://wesscholar.wesleyan.edu . From there, you can access archives and Selected Works pages.

How do I start my own SelectedWorks faculty/scholar page?

To request an access code so that you can begin building your SelectedWorks page, contact your academic computing manager, library liaison, the Center for Faculty Career Development, or a WesScholar administrator  Dan Schnaidt, dschnaidt@wesleyan.edu.

How do I submit my published work to WesScholar’s institutional repository, thus archiving it in perpetuity?

• Collect the digital materials that you would like deposited in WesScholar. Check here for a table of acceptable file formats for submission.
• Confirm your right to put your work into an open-access repository. If you don’t know, contact your publisher. See Wesleyan’s Authors’ Rights Page.
• Contact your academic computing manager, library liaison, the Center for Faculty Career Development, or a WesScholar administrator (see above).

How do I publish an online journal using WesScholar?

If you are interested in this module, please contact Dan Schnaidt.

What can I expect to find in WesScholar today?

WesScholar holds recent Wesleyan theses and dissertations, and will continue to showcase and preserve new papers as submitted. Archived Wesleyan faculty work builds daily. The administrators will be calling for staff submissions once a substantial faculty community exists.

Wesleyan faculty members have begun building SelectedWorks pages. Join the community!

What else should I know about WesScholar?

• The best way to get to know WesScholar is to visit the site: http://wesscholar.wesleyan.edu/
• Check the FAQ page too.
• Or, visit The Berkeley Electronic Press Digital Commons FAQ page.
• For Wesleyan’s faculty-submission policies, check this one-page document.
  A complete guide can be found here.
• See how other institutions are using their Digital Commons™ platforms.
• University of California’s eScholarship Repository hosts many online journals.

For more help:

Go to Wesleyan's Authors' Rights page

Contact a WesScholar administrator: Dan Schnaidt, dschnaidt@wesleyan.edu.