Appendix 6: Access Repositories and Methods

Some places where you can deposit your work include:

• Knowledge Commons
• OSF (Open Science Framework) (example: DLF Born-Digital Access Working Group)
• Zenodo
• PubPub (example: Digital Preservation: A Critical Vocabulary)
• Your institution’s institutional repository
• Your writing and editing documents platform, if it has a “Publish” feature (i.e., Google Docs)

If the team possesses web development skills, consider creating a website for your project. The Born-Digital Description project group (of the DLF Born-Digital Access Working Group) created a WordPress site to showcase their work. Static web site generators support text delivered as HTML, so they are also great options. The markdown editors featured in the charts all produce files that are easily rendered on static websites.

Pandoc is a good tool for converting documents to HTML (and many other formats).

GitHub + GitHub Pages is a toolchain that can host resources, control versions, and generate a hosted static website all in one place.¹⁴

Any author can establish an authority record for themselves called an ORCID. Linking your publication’s DOI to your ORCID account can help you understand a bit about usage of the publication.

 ¹⁴ If you are concerned about how GitHub, owned by Microsoft, might use your data, Codeberg is an alternative option for hosting and using git to control versions of your publication.