FAQ

What are the benefits to contributing and sharing my work on SOURCE?

• Collaboration: Sharing your work encourages creative collaboration with scholars and creators around the world and here at Sheridan. Connecting within and across disciplines opens new possibilities.
• Increased Visibility and Dissemination: SOURCE leverages online search tools like Google and Google Scholar to increase the visibility and dissemination of your work, meaning increased citation counts and greater awareness of your expertise.
• Preservation: SOURCE ensures digital stability by preserving your works in one place.
• Showcasing Sheridan: Contributing works to SOURCE helps scholars, researchers, the creative community, and prospective students, from diverse backgrounds and locations, easily discover what makes us unique.
• Open Access Funding Requirements: Sharing your work on SOURCE meets the archiving and dissemination policies mandated by Canadian and international research funding agencies (See the Tri-Council Open Access Policy on Publications.)

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Why did Sheridan re-launch SOURCE?

We moved SOURCE to an open-source platform to provide a sustainable, long-term home for Sheridan's scholarly and creative work, while continuing to support open access across the college.

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My work is available on SOURCE. Are there conditions on how my work can be downloaded and used by others? Can I restrict access?

All contributions on SOURCE are shared publicly on the Internet. SOURCE includes the following information to ensure readers understand how they may use these contributed works:

• A Creative Commons license lets viewers know that works must be cited or acknowledged appropriately, can only be used for non-commercial purposes, and can only be used as originally published, without alteration. This is the equivalent of the Creative Commons 4.0 BY-NC-ND license.
• For details, please refers to the Terms of Use page.

Works published in journals or books may carry publisher restrictions, which SOURCE will ensure are respected. If you require less restrictions or more, the Source Team will work with you to accommodate your requirements. Contact us at source@sheridancollege.ca.

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Can I change or delete my work after I contribute?

SOURCE is intended to provide long-term preservation and access so removing works from this repository is discouraged. Changes cannot be made to works deposited in SOURCE, however there are options:

• Corrections may be included with the original record
• An updated version may be deposited. Links between the earlier and later versions will be provided, including the most recent version clearly identified.

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What happens to copyright ownership of my work on SOURCE?

Sharing your work through SOURCE does not change who owns the copyright. Copyright remains with the existing copyright holder.

Contributors are asked to sign a Non-Exclusive Distribution Licensing Agreement, which confirms that they have the rights to authorize the SOURCE Team to share their work through the repository.

Before contributing your work to SOURCE, consider the following:

• Works created in the context of activities at Sheridan: Please refer to Sheridan's Intellectual Property Policy and Intellectual Property Procedures.
• Published works, such as journal articles or books: Some publishers require a transfer of copyright from the author. Check your publishing agreement and the journal's open access policy for information about author rights and self-archiving. The SOURCE Team can also assist you in verifying the journal's open access policy and in ensuring that the appropriate version (pre-print, post-print, or published version) is deposited in SOURCE.
• Works created with an external party such as an industry or community partner: Please refer to your contract with the external party for information on copyright ownership and rights retention. For research, innovation, and entrepreneur activities at Sheridan, visit the Generator's website on Sheridan Central for more information.

If your work includes copyrighted content created by someone else, you are responsible for ensuring that:

• Copyright-protected material is used either under an exception in the Copyright Act, such as fair dealing, or with written permission from the copyright holder. Visit Sheridan Library's Copyright Guide for Faculty & Staff for more information.
• Licensed material, such as material provided through library databases, is used in accordance with the permitted uses for each database. Check the permitted uses on Sheridan Library's A - Z Databases site.

If you need assistance on copyright issues related to sharing your work through SOURCE, please reach out to the SOURCE Team.

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