IUScholarWorks Depositing
The IU Southeast Library will assist you in depositing your scholarly research into IUScholarWorks so that it is freely available to the world, at a stable URL, and will be maintained over the long term.
About IUScholarWorks
IUScholarWorks is an open access repository service for disseminating and preserving the intellectual output of Indiana University scholars. The repository is designed to hold and deliver scholarly materials in digital form (text, data, image, etc.) that will not change over time and that are adequately described with standard keywords and descriptors (i.e., do not have specialized metadata requirements). IU students, faculty, and staff may use IUScholarWorks to make their scholarly research materials freely available to the world, at a stable URL, and with the assurance that they will be maintained over the long term.
Benefits of Depositing Your Research into IUScholarWorks
- Perpetual Access: All items deposited in the repository receive a stable, permanent URL so that readers will always be able to find it.
- Full-Text Search and Display: Deposited items that have text components (e.g. Word, PDF documents) are searched full-text by the repository search engine and by general search engines such as Google.
- Google Optimization: Items in IUScholarWorks will show up highly ranked in Google search results, which increases citation impact.
- Readership & Use Metrics: IUScholarWorks offers usage statistics (page views and downloads) for submitters to see how often their deposits are used by others.
What We Provide
The IU Southeast Library works to meet all of your publisher requirements and deposit your published work for you in IUScholarWorks. Not quite ready to make your work open access? Let us know and we can help you delay availability to your work for up to five years with an embargo.
Frequently Asked Questions
Most academic publishers allow authors to deposit a version of their article in their institution’s repository (IUScholarWorks). The IU Southeast Library investigates your rights with the publisher and meets all publisher requirements when depositing your article.
In most cases, no. Publishers usually only allow one version of the article to be shared via the author’s institutional repository. This version is commonly called the Author Accepted Manuscript or AAM.
The Author Accepted Manuscript (AAM) is usually a Microsoft Word document and is the last version of the article that you submitted to the journal and officially triggered the acceptance of the article for publication. This version would not have undergone any formatting or typesetting by the publisher.
Yes. When investigating your rights as an author with your publishers the library also identifies other publisher requirements. These include embargo periods. When uploading the article to IUScholarWorks, your embargo will be applied and this version of your article will be available after the embargo period expires.
The IU Southeast Library harvests data monthly from Scopus to identify IU Southeast faculty publications. Once IU Southeast authors are identified, library staff will reach out to the author to seek participation in this service. Alternatively, IU Southeast authors can reach out to the library at the time of acceptance and share the Author Accepted Manuscript for their new article.
No. The Library will work with you to investigate your rights and permission for any previous work as well. The Author Accepted Manuscript is usually the only version permissible and if you have saved that version or have access to that version of previously published articles, the Library can deposit those as well.
Each joint author of an article holds copyright in the article and, individually, has the authority to grant IU a non-exclusive license. Joint authors are those who participate in the preparation of the article with the intention that their contributions be merged into inseparable or interdependent parts of the whole. Although your co-authors’ permissions are not required, if you are concerned that a co-author would not want to share the work in an open access repository, you may decide to ask your co-author prior to sending the library your accepted manuscript.
Contact
If you have questions about IUScholarWorks depositing, please contact Kate Ziady at kabmoore@iu.edu or 812-941-2189.