SA@OSU is subdivided into communities by discipline or academic unit, usually departments or campus offices. Each community determines what constitutes appropriate scholarly material for acceptance to the IR, in conjunction with their library representative for the IR. Communities can have any number of sub-communities.
Collections belong to a community. Items are stored in collections. They cannot be stored in communities. Collections are ordinarily based on the type of material being collected: e.g. Research Publications; Theses, Dissertations, and Student Research Papers; Presentations; Conference Papers.
OSU faculty, staff and students may deposit items once they are affiliated with a collection in ScholarsArchive. Contact Michael Boock for assistance if you wish to deposit scholarly material.
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If scholars retain the copyright to their articles, they can deposit any version of them wherever they wish. However, most scholars transfer their article rights to a journal publisher as part of the publication process and, consequently, it is the publisher's policies that govern deposit. For example, a publisher may permit deposit of a preprint to ScholarsArchive@OSU, but not the final published article file. Many publisher policies are available from a Publisher Policies and Self-Archiving web site. If you have any trouble finding out what you can and can't deposit, contact your research librarian.
The OSU Libraries implemented this digital repository service upon the recommendation of a 2004 Task Force report. We use it as one tool in our suite of services that comprise the OSU Digital Libraries. ScholarsArchive@OSU is a permanent repository for the university's digital research and educational output.
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ScholarsArchive@OSU uses the DSpace open source software developed by MIT and Hewlett Packard.