Increased Visibility

Your work is more visible and accessible when submitted to YorkSpace. Institutional repositories such as YorkSpace are preferentially ranked by Google, which ensures more of your peers will find and cite your work. In addition, YorkSpace is harvested by OAI metadata harvesters and Google Scholar, which also dramatically increases visibility.

Reliability and Stability

YorkSpace assures the stability of your work's location online (no broken links!) by using Handle System technology. In addition, your data will be stored in a secure and backed-up server environment. York University Libraries will take the necessary steps to preserve your work for the long term.

Comprehensiveness

YorkSpace supports a variety of formats which enables you to give context to your work. You are encouraged to deposit not just the finished work but related materials (including data, images, audio and video files, etc.) as well.

Scholarly Context

YorkSpace places your work in the larger context of the York University scholarly environment.

Authors Retain Copyright

YorkSpace uses a non-exclusive distribution license, which allows authors to retain their copyright.