Share Your Article
Duke University Press offers authors of newly published articles three months of free access, as well as guidance and support for additional promotion.
Share Your Article Email Program
Duke University Press' Share Your Article email program engages authors to help spread the word about their newly published articles. Authors will receive a personalized congratulatory email containing a custom link to their specific article that provides free access to the article for three months after publication. Authors can share this link with friends and colleagues. The email will also contain tips and best practices for sharing academic work online.
Permission for Sharing an Article
You may post your accepted article manuscript (AAM) noncommercially, without embargo, on your personal website, in your university repository, and in other nonprofit or governmental open access repositories, with copyright and source information provided along with a link to the published version as soon as it is available. Where required by your funder or institution, you may also apply a Creative Commons license (BY 4.0) to the AAM. (This approach meets the OA requirements of UKRI and Wellcome, among other funders.)
Also, please always provide the link to your published article instead of providing a PDF. By sharing the link, you increase usage statistics for your article, enhancing the journal’s value for libraries.
Share Your Article Checklist
Bring your work to a wide audience by consulting our Share Your Article checklist (PDF download).
- Update any working papers or preprints with links to the finished article. These documents may be in your institutional repository or an open-access repository like arXiv.
- Update your CV to reflect your new publication. Some people compile research references by examining scholars’ CVs. Including the article DOI, or Digital Object Identifier, (found on the article’s webpage) will help them quickly locate the publication. Be sure that your new CV is on file with your academic department.
- If the journal in which your article was published is not open access, check that your library subscribes to the journal. If not, consider asking your library to subscribe so that your students and colleagues can access your research.
- Send a link to your article to your colleagues both in your department and at other institutions. Always share the link, not the PDF, to support the journal’s usage metrics.
- Share a link to your article on Facebook. Use the @ function to share with any research groups or institutions you are affiliated with.
- Share a link to your article on X. Use the @ function to share with research groups, institutions, or fellow scholars who can retweet you. Consider using relevant hashtags to expand the reach of your work.
- Retweet or share social media posts the Press creates on your behalf. We primarily publicize journal issues on X and Facebook.
- Share a link to your article on other social media platforms. Examples include Bluesky, Instagram, LinkedIn, Mastodon, Reddit, Threads, and Weibo.
- Update your faculty profile page and other professional profiles to reflect your new publication. Include a link to the article. Examples of professional profiles include Google Scholar, Academia.edu, and Mendeley. If you have your own website, be sure to update that as well.
- Ask your department or institution to share your research on their blog or news feed.
- Write a blog post about your article. If you have a personal blog, this is a great place to present further insights that didn’t make the publication. We often share blog posts that connect scholarly work to current events on the Duke University Press blog. If you’d like to learn more about contributing, please contact our journals publicist.
- Contact a relevant news source and let them know about your research. There are many smaller niche news sites that may be interested in your findings. Don’t know where to get started? Ask your university news office for suggestions or contact our journal publicist.
- Let Duke University Press know if your publication leads to awards, speaking opportunities, or special events. Contact our journals publicist and we will help spread the word on social media.
Contact
Should you have a question about the checklist, contact the journals publicist.