Hello, and welcome to the Archive of Our Own’s video tutorial series.
This tutorial demonstrates how to claim stories that have been imported from pre-existing archives
into the Archive of Our Own, or ‘AO3’ for short."
You should have already received an e-mail inviting you to claim stories that had been registered to
your e-mail address in the pre- existing archive.
If you don’t have an AO3 account, or you don’t have one connected to that address, the e-mail should look like this.
Please refer to Part 1 of this tutorial if you’d like a review of terminology used here.
In the middle of this e-mail is a list of all fanworks that were registered to your e-mail address on the original archive.
To begin the claiming process, we will click the link just above them.
This page shows how entries initially appear for imported works.
Although the author is listed, all unclaimed works will also have a note that they are being archived by the site.
This blue lock symbol also signifies that it is currently restricted to registered users of the AO3 only.
The publish date of these stories will show the date they were published on the original archive.
If you’re not currently logged into an AO3 account, this button will allow you to create an account with your stories already added to it.
If you already have an AO3 account, just log into the archive as normal and refresh the page.
You can then add these stories to your current AO3 account.
There are additional options if you scroll down to the bottom of this page.
You can leave your stories as they appear in the entries above, in the care of the archivist,
and restrict to registered users of the site for as long as the archivist chooses.
You can orphan your stories, which will remove your e-mail address from our database,
but please note this will not remove your e-mail address from the text of a story.
You can remove your name from the story entirely, so that this byline only shows that this story is archived by the archivist.
You can delete your stories from AO3 without claiming them.
You can tell us not to ask you to claim stories that may be imported under your e-mail address in the future; however, in this case,
stories may be imported without your notification.
To completely block stories from being imported under your e-mail address in the future, choose this option.
Check off as many options as you’d like, and click ‘Update’. Your works will then be claimed and you will be brought to this page.
Thanks for watching this import tutorial video! We hope it was helpful.
If you still have questions about the importing process, please contact Open Doors, and we’ll do our best to help.
If you have any questions about managing your works after claiming them, please refer to the AO3’s FAQs or contact Support.