Not always. If your research publications are already freely available through other methods, just provide the link to the full text of your paper rather than uploading a file of the full text in the UC publications management system. For instance, you’d choose this option if you published in an Open Access journal (most Open Access journals charge author fees, so if you paid a fee to publish, your article is probably freely available online already). You’d also probably want to provide a link if you’ve already deposited your papers into an open subject repository such as arXiv, or PubMed Central.

If you receive a waiver request from your publisher, or if you have other reasons to, you may want to opt-out of submitting a publication to eScholarship. Click here for more information on opting-out with a waiver.