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Institutional Repositories

An institutional repository offers management and dissemination of an institution's research. Institutional repositories are designed to complement other forms of publishing. Items typically deposited are peer-reviewed materials (pre- or post-print, if rights are retained), supplementary materials, gray literature (conference papers, working papers, primary evidence), dissertations and theses, negative results or work that will not be finished, and student research. Because the major goals of institutional repositories are increased dissemination and the preservation of an institution's research production, most institutional repositories are open access and assure a permanent storage space for research. It is common practice to allow researchers to assign metadata to their documents that are relevant to their particular community to help improve the discoverability of their research. Institutional repositories have their own search engines, and are also accessible from OAIster and general search engines like Google.

IUScholarWorks Repository

IUScholarWorks Repository is a service of the Indiana University Libraries and the Indiana University Digital Library Program to make the work of IU scholars freely available, while ensuring these resources are preserved and organized for the future. All submissions are assigned a stable, permanent internet address so that readers can find and cite consistently.

Reasons to deposit your papers into the IUScholarWorks Repository
Increases citation impact
*Provides increased visibility for your research and your unit, bringing many new readers to your content
*Provides world-wide accessibility via search engines like Google or others. Your content is discoverable from a variety of locations and methods with no extra work on your part
*Provides sophisticated searching, making your materials easy for readers to find
Guarantees permanence
*Assigns a stable, permanent URL to your work so readers will always find it
Ensures quick, efficient archiving of your scholarly work
*Relieves you and your unit of the responsibility for system maintenance
*Removes information technology barriers
Showcases your scholarship with a personalized Researcher Page
*Collates and displays your submitted documents with links to other web resources that you choose
Meets some grant requirements for dissemination
*May help fulfill dissemination and data-sharing requirements of federal and other grants, including the NIH data-sharing requirements

Disciplinary Repositories

These repositories archive research related to a common topic, though their authors come from many institutions. Find a  relevant repository below or visit OpenDOAR, the Directory of Open Access Repositories, which includes over 1200 listings.