When your work is imported onto AO3, several things will happen:
- We’ll send an email to the email address registered on the imported archive if we have it to notify you of the move.
- Depending on whether you have an AO3 account and whether you used the same email on AO3 as the original:
- If you already have an account on the Archive of Our Own under that same email address, your works will be added to your account.
- If you already have an account, but under a different email address, you can still claim your works. If you received a link to directly claim your work, you just need to click on that link while logged into your AO3 account. If you were asked to contact Open Doors to claim your works, you can reply to the email and let us know your AO3 account.
- If you don’t have an account on AO3 under that email address, you will be invited to create one, and then claim your imported works and associate them with that account.
- Your imported works will be restricted to logged-in Archive users by default until you claim them and choose whether you want them to be publicly-visible. In most cases (especially those where the original archive was open to the public and the archivist requests this) unclaimed works will default to being publicly-visible after 30 days.