CUNY Academic Works is an open access institutional repository dedicated to collecting and providing worldwide access to the research, scholarship and creative work of the City University of New York. In service to CUNY’s mission as a public university, content in Academic Works is freely available to all. (For more information, visit About CUNY Academic Works.)

The Graduate Center section of Academic Works provides a way for the Graduate Center community to store, preserve, and provide global access to its scholarly and creative works. It can accommodate almost any kind of work, including articles, book chapters, conference papers, datasets, educational materials, and images. It also holds Graduate Center dissertations, master's theses, and capstone projects.

Want to contribute to Academic Works? 

• Current GC faculty, staff and students may self-submit their scholarly and creative works to Publications and Research.
  • Graduating GC students who are depositing their dissertations, theses and capstones should refer to the library’s deposit procedures.
• Current GC faculty, staff, and students may self-submit educational materials they have created (textbooks, class lectures, activities/labs, syllabi, etc.) to Open Educational Resources.
• GC alumni who graduated before 2014 may contact the library to have their dissertation or capstone deposited to Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects. Email deposit@gc.cuny.edu for more information.
• GC centers, institutes, and offices are encouraged to contact AcademicWorks@gc.cuny.edu about adding their publications.

Copyright Guidelines: Any author who submits work to Academic Works must either have copyright for the work or permission of the copyright holder to place the work in the repository. Many publishers allow authors to "self-archive" their works in an institutional repository. To find out the policy of a specific publisher or journal, check SHERPA/RoMEO, which provides easy-to-read summaries of self-archiving policies.

Questions? Contact AcademicWorks@gc.cuny.edu.