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IU Indianapolis ScholarWorks Guide

A guide for IUPUI ScholarWorks users

About IU Indianapolis ScholarWorks

IU Indianapolis ScholarWorks is a service of the IU Indianapolis Libraries that provides long-term access to a broad range of IU Indianapolis-related digital content of enduring value.

The IU Indianapolis Libraries work to ensure that the campus's scholarly works are as widely available as possible. IU Indianapolis ScholarWorks provides open access to the work that makes IU Indianapolis a leading, urban research and education campus. By preserving and sharing, IU Indianapolis ScholarWorks increases the visibility of faculty, staff, students, departments, programs, institutes, and other formal and informal campus communities.

Benefits

Visibility

Making your work accessible facilitates discovery (in Google Scholar, for example) and citation. IU Indianapolis ScholarWorks receives over 3.4 million visits and 2 million file downloads per year.

Citation Increases

Articles openly shared in IU Indianapolis ScholarWorks are more likely to be cited than articles left behind a paywall.

Persistent Links

IU Indianapolis ScholarWorks provides a stable online location (URL) for your work, allowing reliable access to your work over time.

Preservation

IU Indianapolis ScholarWorks is committed to preserving your work for the long term.

Comprehensiveness

IU Indianapolis ScholarWorks supports a variety of formats, and you are welcome to deposit not just the finished work, but also related materials (including data, images, audio and video files, etc.).