The IUScholarWorks repository is one of the open scholarship services at Indiana University Libraries. It provides a platform to make the research, instructional tools, and creative activities of IU scholars freely available, while ensuring these resources are curated, discoverable and preserved for the future. Faculty and graduate students can freely deposit their work in IUScholarWorks. Undergraduate students who have faculty permission can also make their work digitally and freely available.
Whether you want to share your work with the university or the world, build a digital collection of your work in one place, or you need to share your work in order to comply with a grant, the repository supports sharing a wide variety of materials, including:
You can also use IUScholarWorks to create a central space for published work e.g. related articles, questionnaires, manuals, underlying data, methodologies, presentations, protocols, and course syllabi. Use our CV Service to do this, or create a research collection on IU ScholarWorks
Depositing your work in the IUScholarWorks repository makes your work more discoverable, easy to cite, and provides metrics on use. Since all content is open access, anyone can find your work. Each deposit is assigned a persistent URL such as a handle, or a DOI. IUScholarWorks is indexed by major search engines, such as Google Scholar.
Since all content is open access, anyone can find your work, regardless of whether they are associated with Indiana University.
You can link your work that is deposited in the institutional repository with your Google Scholar profile, or your ORCID record. Google Scholar profiles are one of the most common tools used by researchers to publicize and track their work, receive alerts about new citations, and gather metrics for promotion and tenure dossiers.
ORCID is a unique identifier connecting you with your entire scholarly record, not just your publications. You can connect your ORCID with publications, grant funding, organizations at which you have worked or studied, and other identifiers.
ORCID can automatically update this information if you choose to set up that option. Having an ORCID increases the accuracy, transparency, and visibility of your scholarly record.
You can post the IUScholarWorks link for your work or collection to ORCID or on professional online communities and social media platforms such as personal or departmental blogs, LinkedIn, Twitter, or other social networking resources used by scholars. When posting to social network platforms, it’s a good idea to write a plain language summary emphasizing what your work is about and why it is important.
Tip: Write a plain language summary emphasizing what your work is about and why it is important, then post the summary and a link to the item in IUScholarWorks on the platform of your choice.
Remember that your affiliation with Indiana University or similar institutions affords you information privilege that others do not enjoy, by giving you a high level of access to “research material, including journal articles, data, and primary sources…. access to additional research support, faculty, and a peer network, [and] the opportunity to build upon existing research and enter the scholarly conversation”.
There are plenty of people who might need access to your studies–scholars from small institutions, low-income countries, patient advocates, patients themselves, citizen scientists, and members of the general public. Publishing open access will enable a wide range of persons to access and learn from your work.
Your work is worth sharing! Register on IUScholarWorks today (https://scholarworks.iu.edu/dspace/login), and email iusw@indiana.edu for authorization to deposit your work in IUScholarWorks!
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