Share your Work in Purdue e-Pubs

Purdue e-Pubs 

Purdue e-Pubs is the repository for scholarly publications at Purdue University. Scholarly works posted to Purdue e-Pubs are freely available to a global audience. 

Green Open Access 

Many journal publishers allow authors to deposit versions of their paywalled works in institutional repositories. Green Open Access refers to the practice of sharing a version of a published article, usually the accepted manuscript (the peer-reviewed version before publisher formatting), in a public repository, like Purdue e-Pubs. This makes research freely accessible to anyone, anywhere, regardless of institutional affiliation or subscription access.

Repository Services 

  • Publication Eligibility Review Service: A repository staff member will review publisher sharing policies and requirements for your previously published works, including, but not limited to, manuscript versions and embargo restrictions. Once the review is complete, eligible and available publications will be deposited into Purdue e-Pubs by staff.   
  • Usage Statistics Reporting: Authors who have published in e-Pubs will automatically receive monthly reports including download data and readership metrics.
  • PlumX Analytics: Purdue e-Pubs integration with PlumX allows authors to track mentions of their work on social media, blogs, and news sites.  
  • Accessibility Review: Our repository staff conducts accessibility checks on all materials to ensure compliance with legal and university standards.  

FAQs

Send an email to epubs@purdue.edu, requesting a review of your works for inclusion on Purdue e-Pubs. Include your ORCiD number or list of publications. Repository staff will contact you following the review process to share the next steps. They will also request the needed versions before uploading your scholarship to Purdue e-Pubs. Please note: Publication eligibility reviews using updated ORCID records are processed more quickly. Learn more about ORCiD at Purdue.  

Scholarship posted to Purdue e-Pubs is freely available to a global audience and auto-indexed in Google Scholar. This increases the discovery and use of your scholarship. Purdue e-Pubs includes an integration with Plum X analytics. PlumX tracks mentions of scholarly works on social media, blogs, Q&A sites, and news sites. In addition to tracking citations of works posted on Purdue e-Pubs, PlumX provides separate citation measures for policy citations and patent citations.

Send a citation of your work to epubs@purdue.edu and ask our Open Access experts. You can also search the JISC Open Policy Finder to see if your selected journal supports institutional repository deposits. 

No. There are no fees from publishers or Purdue Libraries to post your works to Purdue e-Pubs. If the publisher has a public-facing author sharing policy, you do not need to pay to post to Purdue e-Pubs, even if the publisher offers paid Open Access publishing options in a subscription journal.

No! There are other Open Access options that fulfill public access funding mandates. You can choose to publish Open Access in any journal covered by one of our Open Access Publishing Partnerships. You can also post a version of your article on Purdue e-Pubs. 

Purdue E-Pubs Live Downloads Map

See Purdue Research in Action

The Purdue e-Pubs Live Downloads Map shows real-time downloads of scholarly work from around the world. Each dot represents someone accessing Purdue e-Pubs research, highlighting the global reach and impact of our scholars.