Think of IU Indianapolis ScholarWorks as a virtual home for your works.

IU Indy ScholarWorks is our Institutional Repository (IR), maintained by IU Indianapolis University Library. Most universities have an IR. 

In addition to journal article post-prints, you can also include works that are not specifically published peer-reviewed articles. 

Items like presentation slides, posters, and conference abstracts can be uploaded. 

Placing items in IU Indianapolis ScholarWorks creates a persistent link (handle), allowing you to link your work in your CV, as well as social media, Google Scholar, ORCiD, and more. 

Do you have anything in the repository already? 
Try searching your name!

To be added as a submitter to a collection, please email MedLRef@iu.edu.

Faculty, Residents, Fellows, Graduate students:

Medical students, we can add you as a submitter to:

Before you upload, search IU Indianapolis ScholarWorks to see if a co-author did so already to prevent duplicates.

It is recommended to upload items as PDFs as this is the most stable format. 

Tips & Tricks

• Submitted items are sent to a librarian for approval. Once approved, you will receive an email notification with the permanent link to your item.
• PDF is the preferred file format to upload. 
• The file name of your PDF will be visible. Change it before you upload if desired. 
• Thumbnails are automatically generated in a few days after upload.
• Author names
  • List authors in order of appearance.
  • Do not include credentials in author names.
• The citation field is the citation for your item. This is what others will copy-paste to cite your work.
• You can add more than one file to an upload. E.g. a PDF of the slides, and a PDF of slides with transcript.
• If you want to choose a Creative Commons license, please do not select CC0. This means "public domain" and you are relinquishing copyright (ownership) of your work.

Pre-prints, post-prints, and (when rights permit) published versions can be shared by IU Indanapolis authors in IU Indianapolis ScholarWorks.

When in doubt, upload the post-print, aka the Author Accepted Manuscript (AAM).

If you need help determining which version please contact MedLRef@iu.edu for support.

"File:Preprint postprint published.svg" by Thomas Shafee is licensed under CC BY 4.0

Now what?

After your item is submitted, it will be reviewed by a librarian and approved. You will receive an email upon approval with a link to your item.

Add that link to your CV at the end of the citation: 

It will appear in Google Scholar soon:

And, of course, add the item to your ORCiD profile!

These steps display your persistent handle in the most visible way on your ORCiD:
1.    Under “Works” select “Add”
2.    Select “Add manually”
3.    Complete the form with necessary information
4.    In the form, select “Add an identifier” under “Work identifiers”
5.    For “Identifier type” select “handle: Handle”
6.    Paste your IU Indianapolis ScholarWorks permanent link to the “Identifier URL”
       Ex: https://hdl.handle.net/1805/25128 
7.    Take the numbers from your permanent link and put into the “Identifier value’
       Ex: 1805/25128
8.    For “Relationship” keep the option button on “Self”
9.    Click “Save changes”

It should look like this: 

(You can add the handle to the URL field as well, but it is not displayed unless you expand the box.)