“The Libraries has launched a “quicksubmit” web form to help MIT authors comply with research funder public access requirements for articles. We built the form in response to the Department of Energy’s public access plan, released in 2014, which requires researchers to submit accepted manuscripts reporting on DOE-funded work to an open access repository like DSpace@MIT.

Here’s how QuickSubmit works:

• Log in to the form using your MIT credentials
• Click “Submit a paper” at the top.
• Enter a paper title, publication date (or estimated date), and one or more funder. Journal name and DOI are optional fields.
• Upload your accepted manuscript. (This is the post-peer reviewed version, not the final published version.)
• Within a day or so, you will receive a persistent URL for the article in DSpace, which you can send to the DOE’s Office of Scientific and Technical Information along with other information about you publication.
• A publicly accessible record of the paper will appear in DSpace, but the article itself will be embargoed for up to 12 months after publication, depending on the publisher’s policy and the applicability of the MIT Faculty Open Access Policy…”