ScholarWorks@UARK User Guides

Submitting Your Work

Faculty and staff have two options for submitting research or creative work – assisted deposit or do-it-yourself (DIY) deposit. Please look at the table below and decide which option is best for you and your materials. 

ScholarWorks@UARK does not host research datasets. For assistance with data, visit the Open Data library guide and contact the Data Services Librarian.

ScholarWorks@UARK is not a preservation platform. Although we strive to provide a stable website, we cannot guarantee preservation and access in perpetuity. We urge contributors to keep digital and physical copies of contributed items. If you would like to learn about options for long term preservation, please contact the University Archivist.

If you want to submit a paper that has been published, please check your publishing agreement to find out which version – if any – you are permitted to post in an open access repository. 

  Assisted Submission DIY Submission
Process Contact the Institutional Repository staff (uarepos@uark.edu), provide the files, and the staff will post materials for you. Follow the instructions below to create an account and post your files. Contact the Institutional Repository staff (uarepos@uark.edu) if you have questions. 
Materials accepted

Papers that have not been published, presentations, conference papers, posters, lectures, images, audio recordings, videos.

Papers that have not been published, conference papers, posters, scripts/notes for lectures or presentations, images.
File types accepted MS Word, PDF, PowerPoint, MP3, MP4, JPEG, PNG, links to YouTube videos, links to Kaltura videos. MS Word, PDF, PowerPoint, JPEG, PNG.

In order to make your files (text, images, audio, video) accessible, please follow the instructions in this guide.

Submission Instructions for Faculty and Staff

Please click the link to unfold the instructions for posting your material. Contact the Institutional Repository staff at uarepos@uark.edu if you have questions.

You can upload these file types: MS Word, PDF, PowerPoint, JPEG, PNG. If you want to submit MP3 or MP4 files, please contact the Scholarly Communications team (scholar@uark.edu).

 

ScholarWorks@UARK does not host research datasets. For assistance with data, visit the Open Data library guide and contact the Data Services Librarian.

 

If you want to submit a paper that has been published, please read your publishing agreement to find out which version – if any – you are permitted to post in an open access repository.

 

Note: You can click each image to see a larger version.

 

Step 1:

Go to ScholarWorks@UARK

Click the login button, then click the sign-up button and create an account using your uark.edu email. If you already have a ScholarWorks@UARK account, simply click the login button.

Screenshot of ScholarWorks@UARK Login page

 

Step 2:

Sign up for the ScholarWorks@UARK account by completing the Create Account form. The system will send you a confirmation email with instructions for finalizing your account. Please follow those instructions.

Screenshot of ScholarWorks@UARK website depicting the create an account section

 

Step 3:

To submit your work, log into your account, then go to the ScholarWorks@UARK homepage.

Screenshot of ScholarWorks@UARK account home page

 

Step 4:

From the ScholarWorks@UARK homepage, do the following –

  1. Click Colleges, Departments, Centers and Institutes                                                                                       Screenshot of ScholarWorks@UARK home page
  2. Click the name of your college                                                                                                                             Screenshot of ScholarWorks@UARK home page
  3. Click the plus sign (+) to see the departments, then click on your department                                                                          Screenshot of ScholarWorks@UARK home page
  4. Click Faculty Publications and Presentations                                                                                                 Screenshot of ScholarWorks@UARK home page
  5. Verify that you are in the correct collection for your department, then click the submit research hyperlink on the left side of the screen  Screenshot of ScholarWorks@UARK home page

 

Step 5:

Author Agreement – Read the agreement and click the checkbox to sign it. If a paper or presentation has multiple authors, only one of them needs to sign the agreement.

Screenshot of ScholarWorks@UARK submission agreement

 

Step 6:

Enter information about the work you want to upload. Please complete all the relevant fields. If a paper or presentation has multiple authors, please add all their names by clicking the green plus sign (+).

Screenshot of ScholarWorks@UARK submission form

 

Step 7:

Publication Date – Use the date of your presentation or the date you completed the current version of the work that you are uploading.

Keywords – Enter terms that a person might use to search for information about your topic, e.g. US Civil War, robotics.

Disciplines – From the menu, choose one or more disciplines/categories for your work. The more specific, the better.

Screenshot of ScholarWorks@UARK submission form

 

Step 8:

Abstract – Enter your abstract or a brief summary of the work.

Comments – Add additional information about the work that may be useful to web visitors. If you are submitting a version of a published paper, make sure your publishing agreement allows you to do so. Then, enter the statement that the publisher requires. (See the example below).

Screenshot of ScholarWorks@UARK submission form

 

Step 9:

Publication Status – Indicate whether or not this work was published.

Embargo - You may choose an embargo, meaning that only the abstract and other key information will be visible in ScholarWorks@UARK until the embargo automatically expires. If you choose No Embargo, the information and the file will be visible to all web users as soon as Scholarly Communications staff reviews your submission.

Screenshot of ScholarWorks@UARK submission form

Additional Files – Check the box if you have additional files, e.g. PowerPoint slides to accompany a conference paper.

Upload File – Click the source from which you will upload the main file and select the file to upload it.

Creative Commons License – If you wish, you may apply a Creative Commons license, which specifies how others may use your work. For more information, see the Creative Commons library guide.

Screenshot of ScholarWorks@UARK submission form

 

Step 10:

Supplemental Content – If you checked Additional Files in the previous step, here is where you will upload them, one at a time. When you finish, click the Continue button.

Submit – Click the submit button.

Screenshot of ScholarWorks@UARK submission form

 

Congratulations!

You have completed the DIY submission process. If you chose an embargo, only the abstract and other key information will be visible in ScholarWorks@UARK until the embargo automatically expires. If you did not impose an embargo, the information and the file will be visible to all web users as soon as Scholarly Communications staff review your submission.

Contact the Scholarly Communications team (scholar@uark.edu) if you have questions.

Join the Community of Partners

Join the community of authors and creators who share their research, creative work, and teaching materials in ScholarWorks@UARK.

Reasons for sharing your work in an open access (OA) repository

  • Increase your impact
  • Attract collaborators, both in your own discipline and across multiple disciplines
  • Share your work with researchers, practitioners, and students around the globe

For more information, visit the Open Access library guide.

Why choose the repository ScholarWorks@UARK:

  • Free service
  • Impact metrics dashboard, including downloads, citations, and social media attention
  • Visibility and discoverability, thanks to high-quality metadata search engine optimization
  • Variety of media welcomed: images, text, audio files, videos 
  • University of Arkansas branding
  • Support for the University of Arkansas Open Access Repository Policy (Academic Policy 1220.00) encouraging faculty to make their research open access.