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CUNY Academic Works & Other Repositories

Upload Policies

Please check the author policies before submitting your work!

Authors' Rights

You may only upload your work to Academic Works if you have the right to do so! 

This is why it's very important to make sure that you choose a publisher who allows self-archiving. If you're not sure whether this is the case, check your contract, or (for a journal publication), look at

For more information on authors' rights, please see our

It covers:

  • Finding publishers' policies
  • Negotiating for more rights
  • Which rights it is useful to retain