Emory Law Scholarly Commons (ELSC) is Emory Law's digital institutional repository. Currently, ELSC houses journal articles published by the five Emory Law journals, legal scholarship produced by Emory Law faculty, and research and scholarship curated by the Center for the Study of Law and Religion. By including your scholarship in ELSC, you work becomes openly and freely available to others, which increases the impact of your work, benefits the public, boosts your author profile, and aligns with Emory University's Open Access Policy.
ELSC is not a replacement for social media accounts, personal blogs and websites, or other channels that you should continue to use to rapidly disseminate information about your work to a broad audience.
Including your scholarship in the Emory Law Scholarly Commons repository
If you are an Emory Law faculty member, and you would like to have your legal scholarship added to ELSC, please contact Andrea Quinn: andrea.quinn@emory.edu
Getting Your Work Added to ELSC
Before the MacMillan Law Library can post any published law journal articles to our repository, we are required to ensure that Emory Law has permission to post each individual work. Authoring a law article confers copyrights to the author, but publisher agreements may limit rights to distribute, reproduce, or otherwise use a work.
Publisher agreements vary somewhat, but such agreements may include:
Before you Sign a Publisher Agreement
Because some publisher agreements restrict when, how, or if you are allowed to have your work posted to an institutional repository, it can be useful to review the terms of your agreement before you sign to determine if you'll be able to add your work to ELSC. At times, it may be possible to propose modifications to agreements that allow you to post to ELSC: