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Email your publication’s PDF and its citation to escholarship.library [at] mcgill.ca (subject: Deposit%20request) (escholarship[dot]library[at]mcgill[dot]ca). We will check the publisher permissions and will upload it on your behalf.

That’s it! The publication will be live on eScholarship@McGill.

There’s no limit on the number of items you may deposit. 

Types of accepted material

We accept publications from McGill faculty, students, and researchers including:

  • journal articles (preprints, accepted manuscripts, or the published version, depending on which version is permitted by the publisher)
  • conference papers/presentations
  • working papers
  • technical reports
  • research reports
  • books and book chapters
  • other scholarly contributions as appropriate

Embargos

We handle the embargo periods for journal publications, ensuring it does not appear on the site until the appropriate time. 

Email your publication and citation to escholarship.library [at] mcgill.ca (subject: Deposit%20request) (eScholarship) immediately upon acceptance.

Thesis submissions

Fast facts

For information on converting your thesis to pdf/a please refer to the following page in the IT Knowledge Base:

Accessibility

Please review the “How to make your PDF accessible” guide.

Mediated deposit agreement

Authors wishing to deposit items in eScholarship must agree to the terms of our non-exclusive license below. This need only be done once by the author via our online form.

Thesis authors do not need to sign this form. The license for theses and dissertations is signed through the myThesis portal.

eScholarship Non-Exclusive License

By signing and submitting this license, I grant to McGill University a non-exclusive, worldwide, irrevocable, royalty free license, in respect of my scholarly work (hereafter, the “Work(s)”), to reproduce, convert, archive, preserve, conserve, communicate, distribute, loan and otherwise make available electronically and/or any other formats as may be adopted for such use from time to time.  I represent that the Work(s) is/are my original work, and that I have the right to grant the rights contained in this license. I further represent that the Work(s) do(es) not, to the best of my knowledge, infringe upon the rights of others.  

I understand that this license does not confer any transfer of copyright ownership or moral rights in the Work(s), and that I may deal with the copyright in the Work(s) consistent with these rights. I understand that it is my responsibility to inform any person to whom I may hereafter assign or license my copyright in my Work(s) of the rights granted by me to McGill University. 
 
I acknowledge that the metadata of this submission(s), where applicable, will be made available under a CC0 (public domain) license.

eScholarship policy

The eScholarship policy outlines the rights and responsibilities of the submitter and the repository, withdrawal and modifications policy, etc. Read the full text of the policy.

Scholaris terms and conditions

Scholaris is the shared opt-in institutional repository service for participating Canadian universities and research organizations on which eScholarship is hosted. Read the Scholaris terms of use.