Submission Guidelines for Open Educational Resources

Before submitting your Open Educational Resource to UTC Scholar, please consult with the Library by emailing scholar@utc.edu. The Library will work with you to ensure the best presentation of your work(s) in UTC Scholar and develop a distribution plan for your works. If you have already met with a librarian, you are ready to submit!

  1. What are my intellectual property rights?
  2. What am I agreeing to when I submit?
  3. How do I choose a Creative Commons License?
  4. How do I submit?
  5. What happens after I submit?
  6. How do I make revisions?

What are my intellectual property rights?

Please review Appendix A: Sharing, Retention, and Ownership of Research Data published in the University of Tennessee Policy on Misconduct in Research and Service effective September 15, 2016.

What am I agreeing to when I submit?

In accordance with the Statement of Policy on Patents, Copyrights, and other Intellectual Property you must agree to our Non-Exclusive Distribution License.

How do I choose a Creative Commons License?

When you submit research, you will be asked to select a Creative Commons License. Here's a little information about each license:

  • Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
    This license lets others distribute, remix, tweak, and build upon your work, even commercially, as long as they credit you for the original creation. This is the most accommodating of licenses offered. Recommended for maximum dissemination and use of licensed materials.
  • Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0
    This license lets others remix, tweak, and build upon your work even for commercial purposes, as long as they credit you and license their new creations under the identical terms. This license is often compared to "copyleft" free and open source software licenses. All new works based on yours will carry the same license, so any derivatives will also allow commercial use. This is the license used by Wikipedia, and is recommended for materials that would benefit from incorporating content from Wikipedia and similarly licensed projects.
  • Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 4.0
    This license allows for redistribution, commercial and non-commercial, as long as it is passed along unchanged and in whole, with credit to you.
  • Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 4.0
    This license lets others remix, tweak, and build upon your work non-commercially, and although their new works must also acknowledge you and be non-commercial, they don’t have to license their derivative works on the same terms.
  • Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 4.0
    This license lets others remix, tweak, and build upon your work non-commercially, as long as they credit you and license their new creations under the identical terms.
  • Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0
    This license is the most restrictive of our six main licenses, only allowing others to download your works and share them with others as long as they credit you, but they can’t change them in any way or use them commercially.

How do I submit?

  1. Make sure your paper is in an acceptable format. We can accept the following formats.
    Type Name Extension
    Text Rich Text Format
    Portable Document Format
    		 .rtf
    .pdf
    Dataset Comma Separated Value
    Tab Separated Value    		 .csv
    .tsv
    Image Joint Photographic Experts Group
    Tagged Image File Format
    OpenDocument Graphics    		 .jpg
    .tif
    .odg
    Moving Image Audio Video Interleave
    Quicktime
    MPEG-4 Part 14    		 .avi
    .mov
    .mp4
    Sound Broadcast Wave Format
    MPEG-1 or MPEG-2 Audio Layer III    		 .wav
    .mp3
  2. Create a new account by clicking on My Account and clicking on the Sign up button. If you already have an account, sign in and skip ahead to step 5.
  3. Complete the user account form. Be sure to enter your UTC email address and choose a password you will remember. Click Sign up.
  4. After you've created your new account, you will see a page directing you to check your email. Check your email and click on the link in the email. This will take you back to UTC Scholar.
  5. Once you’ve successfully logged in to UTC Scholar, click Submit Research.
  6. Choose Research and Data.
  7. Check the box to agree to to the Non-Exclusive Distribution License.
  8. Fill out the form and upload your file(s). Required fields are indicated by a red flag.

What happens after I submit?

After you submit your research, we will review it and publish it on the site. You will be notified by e-mail or when your work is posted.

How do I make revisions?

If the submission has been submitted, but not yet posted, you may revise it via your My Account page:
  1. Locate the article on your My Account page, and click the title.
  2. Click Revise Submission from the list of options in the left sidebar.
  3. Enter your changes in the Revise Submission form, and click Submit at the bottom of the page to submit your changes. (You only need to modify the portion of the form that corresponds to the changes you wish to make.)
    4. Once a submission has been posted to UTC Scholar, you’ll need to contact us at scholar@utc.edu to request edits.