What are the benefits of contributing my work?
Research has demonstrated that with appropriate search mechanisms added, open access online articles have appreciably higher citation rates than traditionally published articles. This type of visibility and awareness benefits both you as the creator and Claremont Colleges as an institution. Specific benefits include: • Visibility of your work in a centralized location means more of your peers can find and cite your work (via searches in Google Scholar and other federated search engines), providing you with a wider audience. • Inclusion of your work in the full range of research conducted at Claremont Colleges provides you with institutional recognition. • Retain control of intellectual property rights to your work by granting a non-exclusive license to the Scholarship@Claremont. • Context for your work, placing you side-by-side with the scholarly and creative contributions of your colleagues. • Create a digital archive of more of your work, including CVs and previously unpublished work
