Frequently Asked Questions


What is the Duke Law Scholarship Repository?

The purpose of the Duke Law Scholarship Repository is to maximize permanent open access to the scholarship and intellectual life of Duke Law School. The main collections include Faculty Scholarship; Journals; Centers, Institutes & Programs; and Conferences, Workshops & Lectures, with more collections in development.

The Faculty Scholarship collection contains articles, book chapters, briefs, works-in-progress, reports, and other forms of scholarship created by current and past Duke Law faculty members.

The Journal Collection houses final published articles of Duke Law School’s student-edited law journals. For submissions to these journals, please review the information found on the Duke Law Journals page.

Publications and events from Duke Law are archived in the collections of Centers, Institutes & Programs and Conferences, Workshops & Lectures.

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What type of content is accepted in the repository?

In addition to written works, our Repository houses, video, photographs, and select supplemental data. To inquire about submitting content for the Repository, please contact .

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Who can submit materials?

Any faculty or staff member affiliated with Duke Law may submit scholarly content. Staff of the Law School institutes, programs, or centers, as well as Law students, should contact .

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How do I submit or update content to the Duke Law Scholarship Repository?

Content is gathered and added on a regular basis by Law Library staff. To submit new content to the repository, Duke Law-affiliated authors may email or

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Can I post supplemental or related files (sound clips, data sets, etc.) alongside the published article?

We are happy to work with you to include related files where possible. Authors should ensure that there are no permissions issues related to the posting of supplementary material. Also note that items such as images, charts and tables that are referenced in the main article (or otherwise an integral part of the article) should be included directly in the article itself. If there are any questions, we will help to work through any copyright or permissions issues where needed.

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If you cannot obtain the rights to distribute third-party material, you can still submit the work for deposit, but the work will not be made available publicly. Information about your work (citation, abstract, etc.) will still be discoverableWe will help to work through any copyright or permissions issues where needed.

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Copyright Guidelines for Authors

To include a work in the Duke Law Scholarship Repository you need to either hold the copyright, have reserved your rights to publicly post the work in an open access institutional repository, or have specific permission from the publisher to post the work. Permission practices for many publishers can be found at Open Policy Finder (Jisc). When you submit a work to be included in the Repository we assume you have permission to do so, unless the work clearly indicates otherwise.

Publication agreements with student-edited law school journals generally include a reservation of rights to post based on the AALS Model Author/Journal Agreement. See Ass’n of American Law Schools, Proceedings 471-74 (1998).

Many journals do not have any restrictions on working papers that preceded an article being posted, especially if substantial revisions were made in the editorial process. Some journals only permit posting of the final published article. You should check your author agreement to confirm publisher policies.

Our staff can work with you to find journal and publisher policies, and review and suggest contract language to reserve your rights.Following are links to publishing agreements or language to add to agreements that specifically permit posting:

If you have other questions about potential contributions or repository processes, please contact us at .

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Removal of Works

Consistent with the purpose of the Duke Law Scholarship Repository to provide permanent open access to published material, a work generally will not be removed once posted.

Circumstances that do not generally warrant removal include commentary on scholarship, court filings/opinions, or other materials in the public record; situations where the material is embarrassing, outdated, or superseded; or there is an intent to publish elsewhere (e.g., the material will appear in a forthcoming book).

In rare and limited circumstances, repository publications may be removed or restricted from public view.

To inquire about the removal or restriction of a work, please contact .

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