About OpenBU
Boston University’s digital repository OpenBU provides access and preservation to BU’s research and scholarship.
Who Can Contribute?
Members of BU academic communities (faculty, students, departments, research centers, and administration) may submit items to collections in OpenBU.
What Can I Contribute?
Scholarly articles, book chapters, pre-prints, working papers, theses and dissertations, datasets, media, presentations, posters, conference materials, technical reports, and more.
Why Contribute?
- Long term access to your work with a stable, permanent URL—no broken links
- Increasing your work’s visibility helps lead to increased citations
- Track worldwide impact of your work (via usage statistics)
- Organize all your work in one easy to find place
- Your works are discoverable by researchers worldwide via Google Scholar, and other search engines.
- Helps support the BU Open Access Policy.
How Do I Contribute?
If My CV has been rolled out to your academic unit, please use My CV to submit scholarly articles. For all other types of submissions, please feel free to use our OpenBU Self-Deposit form, or contact us at open-help@bu.edu, and we can help you get started.
How the BU Open Access Policy works with OpenBU
Under the BU Open Access Policy, faculty members grant Boston University a non-exclusive license to the accepted manuscripts of their scholarly articles to make them openly available in OpenBU BU’s institutional repository.
The policy applies to scholarly articles (not books, book chapters, creative works, or popular articles) that were authored after the policy was adopted on February 11, 2015.
Read the full text of the policy.
Submit an Article to OpenBU in My CV
Faculty can submit articles through My CV, a software system that assists faculty in collecting and maintaining their scholarly and professional contributions and facilitates the Faculty Annual Review (FAR). In addition, My CV helps faculty make their works openly available by identifying publications that fall under the BU Open Access Policy and providing an easy way to submit articles directly to OpenBU from My CV.
BU Medical Campus faculty: Please submit your accepted manuscripts here. You are also welcome to email us the article, providing all the information requested on our submission web form.
Opting Out
To opt out of granting BU a non-exclusive license, you can request a waiver–either through My CV or, for BU Medical Campus faculty, our online submission form. The waiver is granted automatically.
How do I explore what is in OpenBU?
OpenBU has thousands of works created at Boston University. You can search the entire repository for articles, chapters, theses and dissertations, presentations, datasets, media, and more. You can also browse by collection (College, School, or Department).
Questions / Need Help?
Send us a message at open-help@bu.edu and we will be happy to help.