Scholarly Communication @ UH Manoa

All University of Hawaiʻi faculty are required to make available to the public all of his or her scholarly articles via ScholarSpace under the UHM Open Access Policy. A commitment to Open Access ensures access to scholarship that is digital, free of charge for users, and free of copyright restrictions.

Some reminders regarding this policy:

• Papers should be submitted as of the date of publication. (Applicable for all articles written as of Fall 2012).
  • This should be the final version of the article (i.e. changes made as a result of the peer-review process), but prior to publisher's copy-editing or formatting.
     
• Faculty retains ownership and complete copyright of all materials deposited in ScholarSpace, while granting permission for distribution from and through the repository.
   
• Faculty may request waivers for particular articles via written request to sspace@hawaii.edu with:
  • Author name, title of article, expected journal of publication, and the reason for opting out
     
• This policy does NOT require authors to submit new scholarly articles to open access journals.

Open access is content distributed online that is:

• Free of cost
• Free of financial, legal, or technical restrictions
• Full-text

for anyone to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search or link.