HIST 422: Advanced Research & Writing Colloquium (Hooper)

What are the benefits of contributing your work to CrossWorks?

• Increased visibility for your scholarship and creative works via Google and other internet search engines
• Preservation and access to content through a permanent URL
• Provide a link to your work in applications for graduate school or jobs
• Monthly download reports to monitor usage and citations to your work
• Meet grant criteria. Publishing in CrossWorks meets the data-sharing requirement of some grant-funded research.
• Learn more about intellectual property, copyright, and author rights
• Promotion of open access principles
  • Scholarly communication depends on access to research
  • Sharing your work encourages others to share
  • Providing direct access to articles and other content for users around the globe improves opportunities for knowledge exchange

Items in CrossWorks are much more visible than those only available through a journal or library subscription. CrossWorks is designed to work with search engines like Google, which increases the discoverability of publications. The more accessible a publication is, the more readership and citations it ultimately receives. 

For student or other previously unpublished works, CrossWorks provides a convenient publishing outlet. Each work is assigned a unique URL, which can be listed on CVs, resumes, applications, personal Web sites, etc.

What you do:

1.  Review and complete the CrossWorks Submission Agreement.  If you have any questions, contact crossworks@holycross.edu.

2.  Provide the digital file of the work.

• Email to crossworks@holycross.edu

3.   Create a Digital Commons account (optional).  This provides you with access to an Author Dashboard where you can review download and readership information.

• This step is not required, but it provides you with more flexibility and control over reviewing  your download information
• If you do not create a Digital Commons account, you will receive monthly download reports at the email address you provide.

What we do for you:

1. Upload material to CrossWorks.  We use the bepress Digital Commons submission form  to create the metadata and citation for each work.  Access is provided in the form of a downloadable PDF file.

• Once your work is posted, you will receive an email containing a permanent and stable link to the item.

Please Note:

• Permission for images, charts, and other materials incorporated into the paper are the responsibility of the author.
• Compliance with the IRB is the responsibility of the author.